* michail chodorenko <chodorenko@mail.ru> [20200611 09:30]: > Not the first time I have encountered the fact that dependencies on the linux-image-amd64 package in the stretch-backports repository break. I see in the repository there is now only the linux-image-4.19.0-0.bpo.9-amd64-unsigned package dated 27-May-2020 18:28, and the required package linux-image-4.19.0-0.bpo.9-amd64 is not present. >[...] > linux-image-amd64: Depends: linux-image-4.19.0-0.bpo.9-amd64 but it is not installable > > How is it that packages breaking dependencies get into the repository and why are they not fixed for so long? From an earlier mail on this list: * Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> [20200218 19:50]: > Building signed kernel images requires a second pass through the > builders and the upload queues. So they will sometimes lag behind the > other kernel packages in "rolling" suites (unlike stable). I think it should be possible to prevent uploading the new linux-image-amd64 package before its dependency arrives, but I guess this would require additional work that may be better invested elsewhere. Additionally this might even delay the upload of the new linux-image-amd64 package, thus delaying an automatic install of the linux-image-4.19.0-0.bpo.9-amd64 package during dist-upgrade. Of course this is much more problematic if you're not trying to upgrade an existing bpo linux-image-amd64 package, but installing linux-image-amd64 from bpo for the first time on a system. I have been in this situation before, so I'd like to see improvements with this, too. My employer (Intevation) already regularly pays for Debian (and Debian LTS), but this is a special feature, so if there would be a way to pay for the development of a solution for this, I'm sure I can arrange paying a part of it, and I could also ask a partner company (who had the same issue) to contribute. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de> OpenPGP key: https://intevation.de/~thomas/thomas_pgp.asc (0xD45DE28FF3A2250C) Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrueck - AG Osnabrueck, HR B 18998 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
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