Devuan bug report logs - #753
gdb: Package gdb-doc is unavailable, but is suggested when installing gdb

Package: gdb; Maintainer for gdb is (unknown); Source for gdb is src:gdb.

Reported by: Fredrik Nyqvist <fredrik.nyqvist94@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:28:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 10.1-1.7

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Fredrik Nyqvist <fredrik.nyqvist94@gmail.com>, 753-done@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: bug#753: gdb: Package gdb-doc is unavailable, but is suggested
 when installing gdb
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Fredrik,

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 09:25:51PM +0200, Fredrik Nyqvist wrote:
>    Package: gdb
>    Version: 10.1-1.7
>    Severity: minor
>    Tags: a11y
>    Dear Maintainer,
>       * What led up to the situation?
>    1. Installing gdb via apt
>     sudo apt install gdb
>    2. gdb-doc is suggested by apt
>    3. Trying to install gdb-doc
>     sudo apt install gdb-doc
>    4. An error message is shown saying that the package gdb-doc is not
>    available.

Unexpectedly and for lengthy historical reasons[1], gdb-doc is part of
non-free. If you add non-free to your sources.list you will be able to install
it[2].

Closing.

Mark


[1]  https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/11/msg00400.html

[2]  https://pkginfo.devuan.org/gdb-doc

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Devuan bug report logs - #753 gdb: Package gdb-doc is unavailable, but is suggested when installing gdb

Devuan bug report logs - #753
gdb: Package gdb-doc is unavailable, but is suggested when installing gdb