Bug#878077: apt: miscomputes apt-get upgrade from stretch to buster with libkf5bookmarks5 installed

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

On 10/09/2017 06:05 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> upgrade failures are not serious bugs in apt. They are serious bugs in
> the affected packages, and possibly wishlist or normal for apt - after
> all any fixes in apt are basically fixes to not need the workaround in
> the _next_ release cycle, we don't fix upgrade problems by fixing stable
> apt releases.
> 
> The next step is to figure out what is causing the issue, and then
> reincrease the severity and reassign the bug (or a clone) to the
> package that needs to be fixed.

What I don't understand in this case is that

    apt-get dist-upgrade

succeeds (so the packages seem to be fine) but

    apt-get upgrade
    apt-get dist-upgrade

fails (during apt-get upgrade).


Andreas