Re: debian 10 security firefox-esr upgrade failing

[Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>]

Hi Jim,

Please note that according to list etiquette top posting is discouraged.

On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 08:55:16AM -0500, Jim Rosenberg wrote:
> 138% sudo apt-get upgrade
> [sudo] password for jr: 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   firefox-esr-l10n-ar firefox-esr-l10n-ast firefox-esr-l10n-be
>   firefox-esr-l10n-bg firefox-esr-l10n-bn firefox-esr-l10n-bs
>   firefox-esr-l10n-ca firefox-esr-l10n-cs firefox-esr-l10n-cy
>   firefox-esr-l10n-da firefox-esr-l10n-de firefox-esr-l10n-el
>   firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb firefox-esr-l10n-eo firefox-esr-l10n-es-ar
>   firefox-esr-l10n-es-cl firefox-esr-l10n-es-es firefox-esr-l10n-es-mx
>   firefox-esr-l10n-et firefox-esr-l10n-eu firefox-esr-l10n-fa
>   firefox-esr-l10n-fi firefox-esr-l10n-fr firefox-esr-l10n-ga-ie
>   firefox-esr-l10n-gl firefox-esr-l10n-gu-in firefox-esr-l10n-he
>   firefox-esr-l10n-hi-in firefox-esr-l10n-hr firefox-esr-l10n-hu
>   firefox-esr-l10n-id firefox-esr-l10n-is firefox-esr-l10n-it
>   firefox-esr-l10n-ja firefox-esr-l10n-kk firefox-esr-l10n-km
>   firefox-esr-l10n-kn firefox-esr-l10n-ko firefox-esr-l10n-lt
>   firefox-esr-l10n-lv firefox-esr-l10n-mk firefox-esr-l10n-mr
>   firefox-esr-l10n-nb-no firefox-esr-l10n-ne-np firefox-esr-l10n-nl
>   firefox-esr-l10n-nn-no firefox-esr-l10n-pa-in firefox-esr-l10n-pl
>   firefox-esr-l10n-pt-br firefox-esr-l10n-pt-pt firefox-esr-l10n-ro
>   firefox-esr-l10n-ru firefox-esr-l10n-si firefox-esr-l10n-sk
>   firefox-esr-l10n-sl firefox-esr-l10n-sq firefox-esr-l10n-sr
>   firefox-esr-l10n-sv-se firefox-esr-l10n-ta firefox-esr-l10n-te
>   firefox-esr-l10n-th firefox-esr-l10n-tr firefox-esr-l10n-uk
>   firefox-esr-l10n-vi firefox-esr-l10n-zh-cn firefox-esr-l10n-zh-tw
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 66 not upgraded.
> 
> -Thanks, Jim
> 

I am not sure why the language packs are being held back. Also, I am not
sure why you need 66 different langauges, but that should not interfere
with apt.

What is the output of 'apt-cache policy firefox-esr-l10n-zh-tw'?

Regards,

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez