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Tasklist

FS#54064 - [srcpac] srcpac is still in [extra]

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Marco Cilloni (mcilloni) - Monday, 15 May 2017, 15:59 GMT
Last edited by Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion) - Monday, 15 May 2017, 17:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

srcpac is still in [extra] despite the fact abs has been pulled from the official repos today. This makes the package not installable by pacman, even if still present in the database:

# pacman -Sy srcpac
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "abs", a dependency of "srcpac"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
srcpac

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: srcpac: requires abs


Steps to reproduce:
1. run as root "pacman -Sy srcpac"
2. pacman complains about an unresolvable dependency for abs and aborts the installation
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Closed by  Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Monday, 15 May 2017, 17:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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