On 09/17/2017 02:45 PM, Lars Noodén wrote:
> When I try to install the package scdaemon, it wants a different version
> of gnupg-agent than what is available in the repository.
> So how should I handle the following error?
>

>  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>    scdaemon : Depends: gnupg-agent (= 2.1.18-6)
>     but 2.1.18-8 is to be installed

>
> This is on Ascii for amd64:
>

>     $ lsb_release -rd; uname -sr;
>     Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 (ascii)
>     Release:        2.0
>     Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64

>
> The system is up to date as far as APT is concerned.
>
> /Lars
>

There also this, which is similar and has been around for a while:

# apt-get install rsyslog
[snip]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
rsyslog : Depends: liblognorm2 (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Noted in : http://bugs.devuan.org//cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=96

What kind of work-arounds are possible for either case?

/Lars