Hello Miguel,
On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 09:50:12AM +0100, Miguel Angel Rojas wrote: > >This problem isn't because of apt, the problem is that gdb-minimal/gdb > > dependencies cannot be satified. A full-upgrade is the equivalent of a > > dist-upgrade which will remove packages to resolve the dependencies. The > > problem you are facing is the t64 transition[1][2] where not all packages > are > > transitioned. > > I haven't detected any "gdb | gdb-minimal dependencies that can't be > satisfied at this point. Everything seems to be OK with those packages. No, there is (or was) something going on with the dependencies of gdm-minimal for sure. I think it is related to libdebuginfod1, which has a t64 variant. This one has a dependency to libelf1 and libdw1. Now the libdebuginfod1t64 depends on libelf1t64 and libdw1t64. These two replace libelf1 and libdw1, the former having a relative high count of reverse dependencies. > > My advice to you is: don't expect full-upgrade to work until the > transitioning > > is done. > > You nail it here! I have managed to upgrade package by package but it is a > tedious process until the whole transition is completed. Some of them yes, but often after doing one, you can use `apt upgrade' to see if it resolved other problems (which in my case it does from time to time). > But "apt upgrade" > should not remove any packages according to its documentation (man apt) That is correct, but you were executing full-upgrade: > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 02:13:34PM +0100, Miguel Angel wrote: > > > > > # apt full-upgrade > > > Reading package lists... Done > > > Building dependency tree... Done > > > Reading state information... Done > > > Calculating upgrade... Error! > > > 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: > Why is this t64 upgrade working then as it is removing deprecated packages > for *t64 packages? I do not know, at times I'm also wondering why it doesn't do it, but I didn't take time to look at the code to understand what the resolver is doing. Also, it was sort of expected. I think we can probably solve this is a more controlled manner. With the current t64 transitioning in unstable it is difficult to track down. Many updates so the situation now may differ from the situation in an hour from now. > > This seems to be an more of an actual issue where dependencies are > declared but > > apt doing something weird. But that is an issue on bookworm where we > aren't > > getting poluted results because of a transitioning. > > I'm glad you were able to replicate in bookworm (stable) it but I don't > think (at least in this case) it is related to the t64 transition. Same > errors on both distributions and I checked that gdb dependencies were > satisfied in unstable (I don't have a system running stable). I disagree (or agree) to some extent. The gdb-minimal has been held back on my system for a long time. I removed it after I saw it was a remnant of a KDE experiment I did. The fact that I can install it now is a change from a couple of days ago. The bug may be the same, but with how unstable it is now with this big transition, it's wise to leave it where we are now and break it down into a more controlled reproduction path, where we don't have so many moving pieces. > Appreciate your support. Yw and good luck! Cheers, Wesley
