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readline 6 is not in bionic repository

Asked by Doug Collinge

Is there some reason why readline 6 is not in the Bionic repository although readline 5 and 7 are there? I have an application deb that won't install because it wants libreadline6.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/readline/+changelog

You could contact the guy here to find out. There may be a PPA

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

The information that you are looking for is in
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/readline6/+publishinghistory

Removal requested on 2017-12-06.
Deleted on 2017-12-06
(From Debian) ROM; obsolete version of readline; Debian bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877240

see also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877197
"readline6 FTBFS with debhelper 10.9"

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