[Pkg-haproxy-maintainers] issue with haproxy 1.5 using -sloppy

[Jeff Palmer]

Thanks!

btw, I should have mentioned in the previous email, but I appreciate
the effort you all take in keeping the haproxy repos and site updated.


On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Vincent Bernat <bernat at debian.org> wrote:
>  ❦ 31 août 2015 11:09 -0400, Jeff Palmer <jeff at palmerit.net> :
>
>> # apt-get install haproxy -t wheezy-backports-sloppy
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  haproxy : Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~) but it is not installable
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>
>>
>> Installing haproxy from backports (not -sloppy) works fine,  and then
>> an "upgrade" to -sloppy then works.
>>
>>
>> It'd be great if the instructions on the site could be updated to fix
>> the dependency issue.
>
> init-system-helpers is in wheezy-backports, not in
> wheezy-backports-sloppy. Just adding the non-sloppy source should solve
> the issue. I'll update the instructions shortly.
> --
> Let the machine do the dirty work.
>             - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)



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