Subject: bug#370: freecad: Package freecad can't be installed

From: Nico Orru <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:40:27 +0000

Source: freecad
Severity: grave

Dear Maintainer,

$ sudo apt install freecad
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 freecad : Depends: freecad-python3 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
nico@lenovo-devuan:~/Projects/itadinanta/cnc_mill_prototype$ sudo apt install freecad-python3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 freecad-python3 : Depends: libfreecad-python3-0.18 (< 0.18.4+dfsg1-1+1~) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libfreecad-python3-0.18 (>= 0.18.4+dfsg1-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:48:46 +0000

Control: tag -1 moreinfo

Nico,

Thanks. I assume this is beowulf?

I can't reproduce this at all.

> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Do you have pinned or held packages?

Mark

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:35:56 +0000

Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.debian.org/945314

I suspect this was caused by a FTBFS in Debian.

Mark

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From: "Devuan bug Tracking System" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:00:03 +0000

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#370: freecad: Package freecad can't be installed

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Subject: Fixed in Debian #945314
From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:57:48 +0000

Version: 0.18.4+dfsg1-2

Subject: freecad: Package freecad can't be installed
From: Nico Orru <[email-masked]>
To: Devuan Bug Tracking System <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:40:27 +0000

Source: freecad
Severity: grave

Dear Maintainer,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0