no upgrade of libkpmcore8 to libkpmcore9
The dependency libkpmcore9 cannot be upgraded from libkpmcore8,
therefore the package partitionmanager is hold back from upgrades. What
exactly causes "apt upgrade" to not be able to upgrade to libkpmcore9
from libkpmcore8? Below I will show what I figured out so far. Is there
some more detail I could search for? Or is it a bug and if so, for which
package (libkpmcore9 or apt or some other instance) should I report it?
My OS is Debian testing ("Bullseye"), kernel-release 5.4.0-4-amd64 and
kernel-version being #1 SMP Debian 5.4.19-1 (2020-02-13), besides the
below mentioned packages upgraded to the newest package versions.
I have done the following to clarify the situation, which shows that the
hold back is caused by the dependency libkpmcore9:
apt upgrade partitionmanager -s
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
partitionmanager : Depends: libkpmcore9 (>= 4.1.0) but it is not going
to be installed
E: Broken packages
Simulating a manual upgrade of libkpmcore9 shows that there would not be
a solution to the situation:
apt upgrade libkpmcore9 -s
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
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:
libkpmcore9 : Breaks: libkpmcore8 but 4.0.1-2+b1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
However, a manual installation of libkpmcore9 would solve the situation:
apt install --no-install-recommends libkpmcore9 -s
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
partitionmanager
Suggested packages:
btrfs-progs hfsplus hfsutils jfsutils reiser4progs reiserfsprogs xfsprogs
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libkpmcore8
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libkpmcore9
The following packages will be upgraded:
partitionmanager
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Inst partitionmanager [4.0.0-2] (4.1.0-1 Debian:testing, Debian:unstable
[amd64]) []
Remv libkpmcore8 [4.0.1-2+b1] []
Inst libkpmcore9 (4.1.0-2 Debian:testing, Debian:unstable [amd64])
Conf partitionmanager (4.1.0-1 Debian:testing, Debian:unstable [amd64])
Conf libkpmcore9 (4.1.0-2 Debian:testing, Debian:unstable [amd64])
The other hold back packages are these ones, they only appeared in
status hold back some days after partitionmanager already was hold back
as the only hold back package and I therefore conclude that these are
not relevant to my above described problem:
partitionmanager task-english task-laptop tasksel tasksel-data
Looking forward to receiving your kind help! Thanks a lot, Marco.
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