[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1059071: aptitude: wants to remove a package, breaking a dependency
Vincent Lefevre
vincent at vinc17.net
Wed Dec 20 00:26:25 GMT 2023
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5
Severity: normal
I'm currently upgrading a stable machine to unstable (except some
buggy packages), which is mostly done, but aptitude has some issues
when I want to upgrade vlc.
First, "aptitude install -s vlc" does not gives any good solution:
all of them keep vlc at its current version.
Note that apt also fails (bug 1059068), but adding libavcodec60
(suggested in its output) makes it succeeds. With aptitude,
"aptitude install -s vlc libavcodec60" also wants to keep vlc.
If I give the packages to be removed (those listed by apt)
aptitude install -s libavcodec59- libavfilter8- libavformat59- \
libavif15- libsvtav1enc1- vlc
there is still an issue:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libavcodec60{a} libavformat60{a} libcodec2-1.2{a} libixml11{a}
libpostproc57{a} libsvtav1enc1d1{a} libswscale7{a} libupnp17{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libavcodec59 libavfilter8 libavformat59 libavif15 libcodec2-1.0{u}
libdav1d6{u} libgav1-1{u} libixml10{u} libnfs13{u} libplacebo208{u}
libpocketsphinx3{u} libpostproc56{u} librubberband2{u} libsdl-image1.2{u}
libsdl1.2debian{u} libsphinxbase3{u} libsvtav1enc1{u} libupnp13{u}
libvidstab1.1{u} libvpx7{u} libyuv0{u} libzimg2{u} pocketsphinx-en-us{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
libvlc-bin libvlc5 libvlccore9 vlc vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-l10n
vlc-plugin-access-extra vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-qt
vlc-plugin-samba vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-output
vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization
16 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 23 to remove and 78 not upgraded.
[...]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
28) libpocketsphinx3 recommends pocketsphinx-en-us
while there is no need to remove pocketsphinx-en-us.
I've attached an archive with
/var/lib/dpkg/status
/var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates
/var/lib/apt/extended_states
and the resolver log of the above 3 commands.
-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.13
Compiler: g++ 12.1.0
Compiled against:
apt version 6.0.0
NCurses version 6.3
libsigc++ version: 2.10.8
Gtk+ support disabled.
Qt support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 6.4.20231209
cwidget version: 0.5.18
Apt version: 6.0.0
aptitude linkage:
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd88498000)
libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 (0x00007f6c37aaf000)
libapt-pkg.so.6.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.6.0 (0x00007f6c37200000)
libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f6c37a75000)
libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f6c37a40000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f6c37a37000)
libcwidget.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4 (0x00007f6c3750e000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f6c37090000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 (0x00007f6c37a1d000)
libxapian.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f6c36e00000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f6c37509000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f6c36a00000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f6c3742a000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f6c3706c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f6c3681e000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f6c37425000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f6c3704d000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f6c3703a000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f6c36dd0000)
liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f6c36daa000)
libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f6c36ce9000)
libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f6c36cb7000)
libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f6c3673d000)
libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f6c365f5000)
libxxhash.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxxhash.so.0 (0x00007f6c36ca4000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f6c37ad6000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f6c36c9a000)
libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f6c36c8e000)
libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f6c36c65000)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii aptitude-common 0.8.13-5
ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.7.7
ii libboost-iostreams1.74.0 1.74.0+ds1-23+b1
ii libc6 2.37-13
ii libcwidget4 0.5.18-6
ii libgcc-s1 13.2.0-9
ii libncursesw6 6.4+20231209-1
ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.12.1-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.44.2-1
ii libstdc++6 13.2.0-9
ii libtinfo6 6.4+20231209-1
ii libxapian30 1.4.22-1
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii libdpkg-perl 1.22.2
ii sensible-utils 0.0.20
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.54
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.8.13-5
pn debtags <none>
ii tasksel 3.73
-- no debconf information
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Vincent Lefèvre <vincent at vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>
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Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
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