Bug#1079582: nvidia-driver: Cannot install nvidia-driver in sid: unsatisfied dependencies

[Forrest Cahoon]

Package: nvidia-driver
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: forrest.cahoon at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

Attempting to install the nvidia-driver package on my Debian sid system gives
these dependency errors:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Unsatisfied dependencies:
 nvidia-driver : PreDepends: nvidia-installer-cleanup but it is not installable
                 PreDepends: nvidia-legacy-check (>= 495) but it is not going
to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-driver-libs (= 535.183.06-1) but it is not
going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-driver-bin (= 535.183.06-1) but it is not
going to be installed
                 Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (= 535.183.06-1) but it is
not going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-vdpau-driver (= 535.183.06-1) but it is not
going to be installed
                 Depends: nvidia-alternative (= 535.183.06-1)
                 Depends: nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 535.183.06-1) but it is not
going to be installed or
                          nvidia-kernel-535.183.06 or
                          nvidia-open-kernel-535.183.06 but it is not
installable
                 Depends: nvidia-support but it is not installable
                 Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 535) but it is not installable
                 Recommends: libnvidia-cfg1 (= 535.183.06-1) but it is not
going to be installed
                 Recommends: nvidia-persistenced (>= 535) but it is not
installable
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


I have the following sources.list:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free-firmware non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free-firmware non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security main non-free-
firmware
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security main non-
free-firmware

# trixie-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-
reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates main non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates main non-free-firmware


I think this error might be because nvidia-support is a virtual package with no
installation candidate

root at axismundi:~# apt show nvidia-support
Package: nvidia-support
State: not a real package (virtual)
Notice: Can't select candidate version from package nvidia-support as it has no
candidate
Notice: Can't select versions from package 'nvidia-support' as it is purely
virtual
Notice: No packages found


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.10.6-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nvidia-driver depends on:
pn  nvidia-alternative                                                   <none>
pn  nvidia-driver-bin                                                    <none>
pn  nvidia-driver-libs                                                   <none>
pn  nvidia-installer-cleanup                                             <none>
pn  nvidia-kernel-dkms | nvidia-kernel-535.183.06 | nvidia-open-kernel-  <none>
    535.183.06
pn  nvidia-legacy-check                                                  <none>
pn  nvidia-support                                                       <none>
pn  nvidia-vdpau-driver                                                  <none>
pn  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia                                            <none>

Versions of packages nvidia-driver recommends:
pn  libnvidia-cfg1       <none>
pn  nvidia-persistenced  <none>
pn  nvidia-settings      <none>

Versions of packages nvidia-driver suggests:
pn  nvidia-kernel-dkms | nvidia-kernel-source | nvidia-open-kernel-sour  <none>
    ce