[Bug 875928] Re: mutrace: uninstallable as it strictly depends on a specific binutils version

[Colin Watson]

** Also affects: mutrace (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: mutrace (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Riku Voipio (riku-voipio)
       Status: Fix Released

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Title:
  mutrace: uninstallable as it strictly depends on a specific binutils
  version

Status in “mutrace” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “mutrace” source package in Oneiric:
  New
Status in “mutrace” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact] allways. prevents installation of mutrace in oneiric.

  [Development Fix] mutrace was changed to statically link against bfd.

  [Stable Fix] patch attached to the bugreport.

  [Test Case] sudo apt-get install mutrace

  $ apt-get install mutrace
  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:
   mutrace : Depends: binutils (< 2.21.51.20110422) but 2.21.53.20110810-0ubuntu3 is to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

  
  [Regression Potential] Since mutrace cannot be installed, there is hardly anything that could regress further :)

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