Re: Does this happen often with sid?
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 10:34:01AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> I am new to running the unstable sid distribution. Today I wanted to upgrade
> it and when using the dist-upgrade option of apt-get (I think that's
> equivalent to the full-upgrade option of apt), I got this:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> user@debian:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
> attr grub-xen-bin grub-xen-host libcephfs2 libldap-2.4-2 libldb2
> libpython3.9 libpython3.9-minimal
> libpython3.9-stdlib libtdb1 libyaml-0-2 linux-image-5.16.0-3-amd64
> python3-dnspython python3-gpg
> python3-importlib-metadata python3-markdown python3-more-itertools
> python3-pygments python3-requests-toolbelt
> python3-yaml python3-zipp python3.9 python3.9-minimal samba-common
> tdb-tools xen-hypervisor-4.16-amd64
> xen-hypervisor-common xen-utils-common xenstore-utils
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> python3-ldb python3-samba python3-talloc python3-tdb samba
> samba-common-bin samba-dsdb-modules samba-libs
> samba-vfs-modules xen-system-amd64 xen-utils-4.16
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libpython3.10-minimal libpython3.10-stdlib python3-charset-normalizer
> python3.10 python3.10-minimal
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> dirmngr gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm
> libpython3-stdlib python3 python3-minimal
> python3-requests
> 11 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 11 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 9,842 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 76.2 MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> Abort.
> user@debian:~$
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The problem is with the section that lists the packages that will be
> REMOVED.
>
> It looks like the upgrade to the python3 packages that remove/replace some
> existing python3 packages versions triggers apt to also remove samba and
> xen-utils-4.16, which I do not want, so I aborted it. Can I expect that in
> due time, the python3 dependencies will be updated so the full upgrade can
> succeed without removing the xen-utils-4.16 and samba packages?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck
>
Hi Chuck,
[The xscreensaver person, I presume - \o/ ]
Yes, this is entirely normal in Sid and is the main reason that we discourage
people in general from running it as a distribution: if it breaks, you get to
keep both pieces and are expected to be able to fix missing dependencies.
In this instance, I suspect that samba will be fixed relatively quickly - I'm
honestly not sure how big the Xen team is at the moment.
There's every likelihood that it will gradually be fixed as things move
forwards but this is Sid so there's no guarantee that it won't break
elsewhere in some new and interesting way.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
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