On Mon, 04 Jun 2018, fsmithred wrote:

> On 06/04/2018 06:17 PM, KatolaZ wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 11:53:07PM +0200, Jaromil wrote:
> >> vlc broken in ascii?
> >>
> >> a user on twitter reported that vlc is broken:
> >> The package vlc 3.0.2-0+deb9u1 from ascii-security requires vlc-data of same version, but the only vlc-data package available has version 2.2.7-1~deb9u1.
> >>
> >> not sure we can fix this?
> >
> > This is just impossible. They are mixing repos or have pins in
> > place. vlc is perfectly installable and working in ascii. I just
> > upgraded it.
> >
> > My2Cents
> >
> > KatolaZ
> >
>
> ...or they are using auto.mirror.devuan.org, which shows the older version
> for vlc-data:
>

>      3.0.2-0+deb9u1 0
>        500 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-security/main amd64

>

>      2.2.7-1~deb9u1 0
>        100 http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-security/main amd64

well spotted! me too just as Katolaz couldn't find the reason.

now we know, is there any way we can avoid this situation created by
use of auto.mirror? is it still the default in the installer, or where
does it comes from?

thanks