uninstallable packages

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Michael,

On 04-07-18 15:13, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 04.07.2018 um 14:47 schrieb Paul Gevers:
> 
>> I have noticed them in a couple of logs already myself, but I haven't
>> had the time to investigate yet. It looks like a bug to me. I think I
>> saw them before autopkgtest 5.4, but I'd like to confirm that. If only
>> after autopkgtest 5.4 I think the "Versioned Provides" is suspicious. If
>> this is from before 5.4, maybe apt?
> 
> I'm looking at https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=systemd fwiw.
> autopkgtest is version 5.4 afaics
> 
> Could the Breaks: systemd-shim (<< 10.4~) be confusing apt somehow?

I rather believe the handling of Depends in autopkgtest is broken for
Depends that have modifiers (like [linux-any]) in the recent fix to
handle versioned provides well. Niko and/or I will probably be able to
say more later today.

Paul
By the way, if anything regarding migration is worrying you, tell me and
the release team and we'll see how to handle it. But please wait until
we have checked autopkgtest today.

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