Re: svgatextmode: should i file a bug report?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org> wrote:
># apt-get install svgatextmode
>
>Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  svgatextmode: Depends: console-tools but it is not installable
>E: Sorry, broken packages
>
>
># apt-get install console-tools
>Package console-tools has no available version, but exists in the database.
>This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
>never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
>of sources.list
>However the following packages replace it:
>  console-common
>E: Package console-tools has no installation candidate

For some reason it's not in testing at the moment (console-common
actually just replaces some old versions of console-tools):

  console-tools | 1:0.2.3-10.3 |        stable | alpha, arm, i386, m68k,
                                                 powerpc, sparc, source
  console-tools | 1:0.2.3-16   |      unstable | ia64
  console-tools | 1:0.2.3-21   |      unstable | mips
  console-tools | 1:0.2.3-22   |      unstable | alpha, arm, i386, m68k,
                                                 powerpc, sparc, source

There isn't anything the maintainer can do about this except wait for a
few days and see what the testing scripts do, so I'd say there isn't
much point in filing a bug report. You could try grabbing it from
unstable if it's urgent.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]