[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1056959: aptitude: can't upgrade wireshark to 4.2.0-1 without explicitly upgrading wireshark-common or removing wireshark-qt

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

* Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> [231127 15:11]:
> On 2023-11-27 10:43:01 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > With the aptitude TUI or command line, it is not possible to upgrade
> > wireshark to 4.2.0-1 without explicitly upgrading wireshark-common
> > too or removing wireshark-qt. With both interfaces, the proposed
> > default is to keep both wireshark and wireshark-qt at their current
> > version, and for the alternative actions, aptitude never proposes to
> > upgrade wireshark.
> 
> Oops, in the 3rd proposed solution, aptitude proposes
> 
>      Upgrade the following packages:                                   
> 1)     wireshark-common [4.0.11-1 (now) -> 4.2.0-1 (testing, unstable)]
> 
> and wireshark will be upgraded (I initially go confused by
> not seeing a line about wireshark, but that's implied due to
> previous information).
> 
> Anyway, this should have been the first solution. And on another
> machine (with similar config), this is the first solution:

Apparently the package relations in wireshark are not ideal,
possibly broken, see bug #1056985.


Chris