Package: lazarus-1.6 Severity: grave Dear Maintainer,
Installation of lazarus-1.6 fails citing a dependency on lazarus-ide-1.6, which in turn fails installation citing a dependency on lcl-1.6. Manual installation of lcl-1.6 leads to lazarus-1.6 failing to install due to an unresolved dependency, reproduced below: The following packages have unmet dependencies: lazarus-1.6 : Depends: lazarus-ide (>= 1.6.2+dfsg-1~bpo8+1) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. The package was installed successfully before despite this error, however, fp-units-* packages do not get installed along with the compiler package this IDE depends on. In diagnosing that error I uninstalled and attempted to reinstall. Now, launching the IDE via the applications menu causes the lazarus launcher to state that the binary is missing (though the splash screen appears). To clarify: straightforward installation of lazarus-1.6 fails, but can be managed by beating aptitude over the head. After doing so the IDE still fails to compile anything due to dependencies it did not install. Respectfully, R0b0t1 -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (1000, 'stable'), (900, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)