Upgraded to 21.04 and now software (ODADrawingsExplorer) is broken

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:37:59 -0700 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> <div dir='auto'>Is going to an LTS release a valid option?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Brian</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 7, 2021 2:58 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 03:29:28PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:<br>
> > I just upgraded my 20.10 VM to 21.04, and now ODADrawingsExplorer won't <br>
> > install:<br>

The thing is, these people did something incredibly stupid when then built the 
Debian package -- they did this pre-install dependency nonsense, instead of 
proper dependencies, which would have caused apt to pull the proper 
libraries automagically.

> [...]<br>
> > Fortunately, I made a backup, so I can revert to 20.10 and just never update <br>
> > it, despite its EOL on July 22, but is that my only option?</p>
> <p dir="ltr">Your best option is to contact the maintainer of this<br>
> ODADrawingsExplorer package and ask them to update their packaging so<br>
> that it's installable on versions of Ubuntu newer than 20.10.</p>
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> Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]</p>
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