On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 08:30:51AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 09:48:10PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Why is this package missing from the repos, but installed in my > > stretch install? > > Because you upgraded from jessie. This lets you keep older shared > libraries or other packages as long as they don't conflict with anything > in stretch. And shared libs typically don't conflict with anything.
Very interesting, thank you. How do I replace it with something stretch-supported, without having 130 paackages and 550MiB first removed? (Which seems necessary because it's breaking git clone with https URLs.)