Package priority puzzlement
I just installed Bullseye after -- as a long-time Debian user --
having had my hard drive corrupted by USB devices.
I used to run testing, so i thought i would get there, but first i
wanted to install the apps i wanted, get things working, and then
migrate to testing.
During the install, i also enabled security-updates. In fact, i
added both sid and testing to my sources.list (after booting into
new install).
I'm seeing some strange behavior which i cannot figure out when i go
to upgrade or add packages... best demonstrated by the particular
cases i am puzzling over.
First:
cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "stable";
And there are 9 pre-installed scripts in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d that i
don't believe are relevant to any of this.
So, when i do: "aptitude safe-upgrade":
The following NEW packages will be
installed:
libbotan-2-18{a} libidn12{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libbotan-2-17{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
libgs9 libgs9-common libperl5.32 libssh-gcrypt-4 openssl perl
perl-base
perl-modules-5.32 thunderbird
9 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not
upgraded.
Need to get 13.0 MB/57.1 MB of archives. After unpacking 252 kB
will be used.
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# aptitude why libidn12
i gimp Depends libgs9 (>= 8.61.dfsg.1)
p A libgs9 Depends libidn12 (>= 1.13)
# apt-cache policy libgs9
libgs9:
Installed: 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u1
Candidate: 9.53.3~dfsg-8
Version table:
9.53.3~dfsg-8 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
*** 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u1 500
500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security
bullseye-security/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
9.53.3~dfsg-7+b1 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64
Packages
9.53.3~dfsg-7 990
990 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64
Packages
# apt-cache policy gimp
gimp:
Installed: 2.10.22-4
Candidate: 2.10.22-4
Version table:
2.10.26-1 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
*** 2.10.22-4 990
990 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64
Packages
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
# apt-cache show libgs9|egrep
'Version|libidn'
Version: 9.53.3~dfsg-8
Depends: libgs9-common (= 9.53.3~dfsg-8), poppler-data, libc6
(>= 2.29), libcups2 (>= 2.3~b6), libfontconfig1 (>=
2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.10.1), libidn12 (>=
1.13), libijs-0.35 (>= 0.35), libjbig2dec0 (>=
0.16+20190905), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), liblcms2-2 (>=
2.6), libopenjp2-7 (>= 2.0.0), libpaper1, libpng16-16 (>=
1.6.2-1), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
Version: 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u1
Depends: libgs9-common (= 9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u1), poppler-data,
libc6 (>= 2.29), libcups2 (>= 2.3~b6), libfontconfig1 (>=
2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.10.1), libidn11 (>=
1.13), libijs-0.35 (>= 0.35), libjbig2dec0 (>=
0.16+20190905), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), liblcms2-2 (>=
2.6), libopenjp2-7 (>= 2.0.0), libpaper1, libpng16-16 (>=
1.6.2-1), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
Version: 9.53.3~dfsg-7+b1
Depends: libgs9-common (= 9.53.3~dfsg-7), poppler-data, libc6
(>= 2.29), libcups2 (>= 2.3~b6), libfontconfig1 (>=
2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.10.1), libidn12 (>=
1.13), libijs-0.35 (>= 0.35), libjbig2dec0 (>=
0.16+20190905), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), liblcms2-2 (>=
2.6), libopenjp2-7 (>= 2.0.0), libpaper1, libpng16-16 (>=
1.6.2-1), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
Version: 9.53.3~dfsg-7
Depends: libgs9-common (= 9.53.3~dfsg-7), poppler-data, libc6
(>= 2.29), libcups2 (>= 2.3~b6), libfontconfig1 (>=
2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.10.1), libidn11 (>=
1.13), libijs-0.35 (>= 0.35), libjbig2dec0 (>=
0.16+20190905), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), liblcms2-2 (>=
2.6), libopenjp2-7 (>= 2.0.0), libpaper1, libpng16-16 (>=
1.6.2-1), libtiff5 (>= 4.0.3), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
dpkg -l 'libidn1*'|grep '^i'
ii libidn11:amd64 1.33-3 amd64 GNU Libidn library,
implementation of IETF IDN specifications
So, libidn11 is currently installed as a dependency of libgs9 from
the security source. But it wants to install libidn12, because it's
going to install libgs9 from sid!
The other package it wanted to "upgrade" shows a similar issue:
# why libbotan-2-18
___________________________
aptitude why...
i lxde Suggests libreoffice
p libreoffice Suggests firefox-esr | thunderbird | firefox
p thunderbird Depends libbotan-2-18 (>= 2.18.1+dfsg)
# why libbotan-2-17
___________________________
aptitude why...
iB thunderbird Depends libbotan-2-17 (>= 2.17.3+dfsg)
Why is this broken? I installed thunderbird from testing, it was
broken, reinstalled what had been originally installed, from
security... all broken.
It *works* perfectly fine.
# apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
Installed: 1:78.14.0-1~deb11u1
Candidate: 1:78.14.0-1
Version table:
1:78.14.0-1 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
*** 1:78.14.0-1~deb11u1 500
500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security
bullseye-security/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:78.13.0-1 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64
Packages
1:78.12.0-1 990
990 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64
Packages
# apt-cache policy libbotan-2-17
libbotan-2-17:
Installed: 2.17.3+dfsg-2
Candidate: 2.17.3+dfsg-2
Version table:
2.17.3+dfsg-3 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64
Packages
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
*** 2.17.3+dfsg-2 990
990 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
# apt-cache policy libbotan-2-18
libbotan-2-18:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.18.1+dfsg-3
Version table:
2.18.1+dfsg-3 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64
Packages
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
# aptitude install thunderbird
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libbotan-2-18{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libbotan-2-17{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
thunderbird
1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/44.1 MB of archives. After unpacking 16.4 kB will
be freed.
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Again, it's trying to install thunderbird from sid! Which is the
only one that depends on libbotan-2-18.
It's probably a bad idea to mix security updates and testing (i just
added sid to the sources because i want to know what's available,
but not install anything from there... yet).
But i'd like some insight into what it's doing and why.
Thanks for any insight.
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