Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Franklin, Sorry it took so long before somebody looked at your report. I subscribed today, but apparently nobody was handling bugs against upgrade-reports so far (or your bug fell through the cracks. On Sun, 05 Apr 2020 11:08:53 +0800 Franklin Weng <franklin@goodhorse.idv.tw> wrote: > Many packages, including chromium, thunderbird, firefox-esr, are not able to > upgrade due to dependent on libevent-2.1-6 while Debian testing has upgraded > libevent to libevent-2.1-7. > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > > Debian testing has upgraded to libevent-2.1-7 but packages of chromium, > thunderbird, firefox-esr are still depending on libevent-2.1-6 I guess you have resolved the issue in the mean time. If not, or if you still remember, which versions of chromium, thunderbird, firefox-esr are you installing? I do hope the version in testing. I'm running all three packages myself in bullseye, so either the issue is resolved, or the upgrade process is broken somehow. > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > Just apt update; apt upgrade Maybe, you needed an apt full-upgrade to pull in additional packages. > In my /etc/source.list I have testing repository and buster/update/main. > Newest version of the above packages were from buster/update/main. > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > Unable to upgrade. > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > The above packages should be rebuilt depending on libevent-2.1-7 Packages are rebuild when transitions happen. I suspect instead of this dependency, it is rather that those packages grew additional dependencies. Paul
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