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

Package: gdb; Severity: minor; Reported by: Fredrik Nyqvist <[email protected]>; Done: Mark Hindley <[email protected]>; Maintainer for gdb is (unknown).

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:42:03 +0100
From: Mark Hindley <[email protected]>
To: Fredrik Nyqvist <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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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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.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)
Release: 4
Codename: chimaera
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-20-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gdb depends on:
pn  libbabeltrace1          <none>
ii  libc6                   2.31-13+deb11u5
pn  libdebuginfod1          <none>
ii  libexpat1               2.2.10-2+deb11u5
ii  libgcc-s1               10.2.1-6
pn  libipt2                 <none>
ii  liblzma5                5.2.5-2.1~deb11u1
ii  libmpfr6                4.1.0-3
ii  libncursesw6            6.2+20201114-2
ii  libpython3.9            3.9.2-1
ii  libreadline8            8.1-1
pn  libsource-highlight4v5  <none>
ii  libstdc++6              10.2.1-6
ii  libtinfo6               6.2+20201114-2
ii  libxxhash0              0.8.0-2
nii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2

Versions of packages gdb recommends:
pn  libc-dbg  <none>

Versions of packages gdb suggests:
pn  gdb-doc    <none>
pn  gdbserver  <none>

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