[elbe-devel] elbe has unmet dependencies in Debian 9.0 (stretch)

[Manuel Traut]

Hi Richard,

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 05:46:42AM +0200, John Ogness wrote:
> > elbe cannot run on stretch (yet). You must run it on a Debian/jessie
> > (oldstable) system. I expect stretch will be officially supported for
> > the elbe 2.0 release.
> 
> And elbe 1.9 already works just fine, BTW.
> 
>     # /etc/elbe/sources.list
>     # elbe 1.9
>     deb http://debian.linutronix.de/elbe-testing stretch main
>     # for python-npyscreen
>     deb http://debian.linutronix.de/elbe-common stretch main

maybe because python-pyme is on your system (as on mine) from previous debian
releases.. (not removed during upgrade)

> > You can still use elbe to generate filesystems based on Debian/stretch.
> 
> My understanding is that generating stretch targets may still have
> issues using elbe 1.9.  Is this fully supported and tested under
> elbe 1.2?

elbe on stretch is currently not working out of the box. Producing stretch
targets isn't working with elbe-1.2 and elbe-1.9.x. Both should be fixed for
elbe 2.0

Regards,
    Manuel