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Bug#972820: confirmation, test case



Looks like https://bugs.debian.org/964477 is related or the same, not
sure which way the merge should go. There's some existing discussion
there, including suggesting that the commit I cited below was not the
only thing that broke it, given it was marked "found" in 10.1.0-1.

It also looks like https://bugs.debian.org/972936 might be related, as
well as the archived bug https://bugs.debian.org/946285

I've collected some mentions of this issue in the readme of
<https://salsa.debian.org/rpavlik/gcc-10-compat>

Thanks for your help!

Ryan

On 12/4/2020 12:27 PM, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> I have also experienced this bug, as have a lot of others on the
> internet (try searching for "libc6-dev : Breaks: libgcc-8-dev (<
> 8.4.0-2~) but 8.3.0-6 is to be installed" to see). The bug appears to be
> in the new gcc-10 package, not the gcc-8 package it's replacing on upgrade.
>
> It looks like it's a result of the lack of transitional packages from
> libgcc1 to libgcc-s1 (and its relatives). They were removed from sid and
> bullseye for 10.1.0-2, in this commit:
> https://salsa.debian.org/toolchain-team/gcc/-/commit/e8047f6d4947d94d7475987d0697434f1e6504d7 ;
> (though multi-arch properties were removed before then).
>
> I was able to work around this issue by creating a simple mostly-empty
> source package that created the missing transitional packages and
> installing them, though this is of course inferior to having them
> actually provided by the relevant source package.
> https://salsa.debian.org/rpavlik/gcc-10-compat (I only mocked up/built
> the packages required to test on x86_64/i386, but I'd expect the same
> problem and solution on the other platforms that have additional libgcc
> packages.)
>
> I have a reproducible test case: I did it in a Dockerfile, but you could
> do the equivalent commands in a chroot or which ever way you prefer.
> Essentially, you can start with a fairly minimal Debian Buster install,
> and install the following packages:
>
> apt-get install -y -qq --no-install-recommends gcc-8 libc6-dev libreoffice
>
> (This is one minimal set to reproduce - there may be others.)
>
> Then, when you switch the Buster sources to Bullseye, you'll get this
> error on your attempt to apt-get dist-upgrade:
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Calculating upgrade... Error!
> 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:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libc6-dev : Breaks: libgcc-8-dev (< 8.4.0-2~) but 8.3.0-6 is to be
> installed
> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
> caused by held packages.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> You can confirm the fix by adding the repo with my workaround
> transitional packages:
>
> deb
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rpavlik:/bullseye-fix
> Debian_Testing/
>
> (key is at
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rpavlik:/bullseye-fix/Debian_Testing/Release.key
> )
>
> I've uploaded my dockerfile for experimenting with this bug to
> https://salsa.debian.org/rpavlik/gcc-upgrade-testcase
>
> It looks to me, based on the workaround I was able to create, that the
> solution might include re-enabling the transitional packages for
> bullseye/sid at least until the release of bullseye as stable. At that
> point, anyone upgrading to testing or unstable would be coming from a
> bullseye release that has the gcc-10 with new names, so the transitional
> packages would not be needed anymore.
>
>
>

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