Re: vim on powerpc

Hi Simon,

Thanks for your reply. Note that vim didn't disappear from Debian SID 
(sysvinit). Since unstable is our only option for powerpc, I'll either 
try build vim (or vim-tiny) as you suggested, or use traditional vi.

thanks again

-Stan

On 10/11/25 1:52 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> that's just unstable being unstable, unrelaxed to other packages. vim 
> and vim-common are built from the same source package, so they update 
> together, but if the package fails to build, the vim package will fall 
> behind because vim-common is shared between architectures.
> 
> IIRC there is a failing testcase that breaks a lot of architectures. 
> Quick fix is to build the package yourself in pbuilder with 
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck.
> 
>     Simon
> 
> 12 Oct 2025 03:32:20 Stan Johnson <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> After upgrading to the latest Debian SID (systemd) on a PowerBook G3 
>> Wallstreet, vim was deleted. I did not run into this issue updating 
>> Debian SID (sysvinit) on a PowerBook G3 Lombard, so it's possible that 
>> systemd (or something related to systemd) pulled in a version of 
>> vim-common that is incompatible with the latest available version of vim.
>>
>> Here's the applicable error:
>>
>> # apt-get install vim
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Solving dependencies... Error!
>> 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:
>>   vim : Depends: vim-common (= 2:9.1.1230-2) but 2:9.1.1846-1 is to be 
>> installed
>>         Depends: vim-runtime (= 2:9.1.1230-2) but it is not going to 
>> be installed
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>> E: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional 
>> context:
>>     Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
>>     1. vim:powerpc=2:9.1.1230-2 is selected for install
>>     2. vim:powerpc Depends vim-common (= 2:9.1.1230-2)
>>        but none of the choices are installable:
>>        [no choices]
>>
>> ---
>>
>> I can just wait and hope that a newer version of vim eventually 
>> becomes available, or I can use pico, which IMO is good but not as 
>> good as vi.
>>
>> I could also compile and install the latest version of traditional vi 
>> (ex-050325) available from "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ex-vi/".
>>
>> If anyone has any other recommendations, please let me know. Thanks.
>>
>> -Stan Johnson
>