<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_33653">Rolf,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_38485"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_33751" dir="ltr">Than<font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">ks for ge</font>tting your ppa back up and running. However, I am not able to install the libsane package using apt, even when I try to force the version. I believe that your new version numbering with ~ is causing the problem.<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_41855"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_41847"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43503" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_72484" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">ver=1.0.26~ppa20170508-yakkety0; </font>sudo apt-get install libsane=</font><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43522" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">$ver libsane-common=$ver</font><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43527" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"> sane-utils=$ver</font><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43536"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_45271"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">Apt complains that <br></font></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_51654"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_51634"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">The following packages have unmet dependencies:<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_51630"> libsane : Breaks: libsane-common (< 1.0.26)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_51631"> Breaks: libsane-common:i386 (< 1.0.26)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_51632">E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_51633"></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_51646"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_51647"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_51677" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">I think the issue is th</font><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_53208" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">at version 1.0.26~ppa20170508-yakkety0 compares less than 1.0.26 due to special rules for handling ~ in version numbers.</font><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_58005" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"> The following shows this:</font></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_57998"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><font face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_57999"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.26~ppa20170508-yakkety0 lt 1.0.26 && echo true<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_58047">true</font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_59597"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_59603"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_61159" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">I created a local repository and re-packaged as version 1.0.26+ppa20170508-yakkety0 and was able to install with no problems, so </font><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_61176" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">maybe change the ~ for + or some other separator? I am not experienced with debian package management, so please disregard if I am missing something.</font></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_77374"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_61176" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_77375"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_43528" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494220058363_61176" face="HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif">James</font><br></font></div></div></body></html>