Re: unable to install (upgrade) git - git-man dependency

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>]

Hi Adrian,

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> It's the usual problem in Debian Ports [1] due to some Qt5 packages 
> FTBFS on sparc64.
>
> In particular, it's kconfig that blocks subversion which blocks git.
>
> You can fetch git-man from snapshot.debian.org in the meantime.
>
> FWIW, the various build issues on sparc64 have been fixed in Qt6, so 
> all these
> Qt issues will go away once everyone has migrated to Qt6. 

I fetched the older version of git-man required from 
snapshot.debian.org, installed it with dpkg. Then I was able to install 
git, compile stuff again and also finish upgrading. Running kernel 6.0.x 
serie son the Niagara CPU now... let's see how it goes.

Thanks,
Riccardo