Re: Clarification regarding zlib1g-dev package for buster-slim s390x

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>]

Hi Yasir,

On 11/08/2022 17:14, Yasir Ashfaq1 wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
> Hope you are doing well!
>
> We are recently facing a problem installing zlib1g-dev package for s390x/debian:buster-slim tag.
> Preinstalled zlib1g version for this tag is zlib1g/now 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u1.
> When we try to install zlib1g-dev, it is unable to do the same because available zlib1g-dev package is zlib1g-dev/oldstable 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1, which is an older version.
> Due to this we get the following error :
> zlib1g-dev : Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1) but 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u1 is to be installed
>
> We confirmed the zlib1g-dev version used for buster for s390x on https://packages.debian.org/buster/zlib1g-dev
>
> We also received below warning after ‘apt update’:
> N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-s390x/Packages' as repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease' doesn't support architecture 's390x'
>
> Could you please let us know why there is a discrepancy in version of zlib1g and zlib1g-dev package or whether there is a possibility that you have missed adding updates for s390x.

buster standard security support has ended as of August 1st. It's still 
supported by the LTS team, but for a limited set of architectures, which doesn't 
include s390x:

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Cheers,
Emilio