Hello! On 9/7/21 09:11, Mick Bert wrote: > Today I'm taking my ibookG4 out of his box, with the aim of a simple daily use > (I' currently writing with Thunderbird running on it). I had some issues > installing > the wireless related packages, and I thought it was an isolated case, but I > found > similar issue installing emacs, so I wonder if there are something in my apt > configuration which I should check.
The issue is the following emacs upstream bug [1] which has not been fixed in the Debian package yet. It makes the package uninstallable as explained here [2]. > The firs time I noticed it was installing firmware-b43-installer, which > required > b43-fwcutter which is not available. I resolve downloading and installing an > old > version of such packages. b43-fwcutter is a package in the "contrib" section of the archive which is unfortunately not yet supported in Debian Ports. Same for "non-free". I have asked the Debian Ports FTP team to add these sections for us, so that these packages become available in Debian Ports as well, but this has not happened yet, unfortunately. Adrian > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2021-03/msg02259.html > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
