On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 17:12 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> I will put in a bug report but it would be good if this were followed up by representations from the LDC bosses...

Sam Morris already reported this, but it appears that some pressure is needed to get a rebuild of the package so it is installable.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23664876

> The version of LDC in the Debian Unstable repository cannot be installed on a fresh Debian install as it depends on a library that is no longer in the repository.


-- 
Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder      t: +44 20 7585 2200   voip: sip:russel.winder@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road    m: +44 7770 465 077   xmpp: russel@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK   w: www.russel.org.uk  skype: russel_winder

On 01/05/12 18:23, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 17:12 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
>> I will put in a bug report but it would be good if this were followed up
>> by representations from the LDC bosses...
>
> Sam Morris already reported this, but it appears that some pressure is
> needed to get a rebuild of the package so it is installable.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23664876

Ditto Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ldc/+bug/941549

On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 21:31 +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 01/05/12 18:23, Russel Winder wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 17:12 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> >> I will put in a bug report but it would be good if this were followed up by representations from the LDC bosses...
> >
> > Sam Morris already reported this, but it appears that some pressure is needed to get a rebuild of the package so it is installable.
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23664876
> 
> Ditto Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ldc/+bug/941549

I grabbed a copy of the missing shared object from the Debian snapshots repository and installed it in my local Debian repository so I got a valid installation. But this is hacking of a not nice sort :-(

Does Ubuntu have a similar history repository?

-- 
Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder      t: +44 20 7585 2200   voip: sip:russel.winder@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road    m: +44 7770 465 077   xmpp: russel@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK   w: www.russel.org.uk  skype: russel_winder