[OpenAFS-devel] openafs-client 1.8.6 update in ubuntu 18.04 ppa not upgradable

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:32:52PM -0700, Spencer Olson wrote:
> Just a heads up that the 1.8.6 updates in the master ppa that were
> uploaded on Jan 15 do not update because of a broken dependency on
> init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~) whereas the standard install only has
> up to init-system-helpers 1.51.  I'm guessing that whoever created the
> packages that were uploaded to the master ppa had a repo that pulled
> in a newer version of init-system-helpers.

https://launchpad.net/~openafs/+archive/ubuntu/stable says right at the
top:

Note: to use this PPA on Ubuntu 18.04 bionic, you will need to ‘apt install
init-system-helpers/bionic-backports’ (see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports).

-Ben