Package: python-apt
Version: 1.8.4.1
Dear maintainers,
It seems there is a dependency issue (?) when installing python-apt as
indicated in following trace. On previous Debian buster (10.2), this
issue does not exist.
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# cat /etc/debian_version
10.3
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# grep -iR deb /etc/apt/sources* |grep -v "#"
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_apt_v_10_buster_update_security.list:deb
http://security.debian.org buster/updates main contrib non-free
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_apt_v_10_buster_backports.list:deb
http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_apt_v_10_buster_updates.list:deb
http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_apt_v_10_buster_previous.list:deb
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_apt_v_10_buster_current.list:deb
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# grep -R P /etc/apt/preferences* |grep -v "#"
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_systemd.pref:Package:
systemd
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_systemd.pref:Pin:
release *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_systemd.pref:Pin-Priority:
-1
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_elogind.pref:Package:
elogind
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_elogind.pref:Pin:
release *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_elogind.pref:Pin-Priority:
-1
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_dhcpcd5.pref:Package:
dhcpcd5
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_dhcpcd5.pref:Pin:
release *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_dhcpcd5.pref:Pin-Priority:
-1
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=buster/updates
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: 920
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=buster-update
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: 910
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=buster
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: 900
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=buster-backports
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: -1
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=stretch
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: 400
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=testing
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: -1
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=unstable
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: -1
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# apt update && apt upgrade
Hit:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:4 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Ign:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:3 http://security-cdn.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~#
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# dpkg -l |grep -v ii
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture
Description
+++-==========================-===========================-============-===============================================================================
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~#
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# uname -a
Linux vm-ssh-190-factory 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1
(2020-01-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~#
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# apt-get install --no-install-recommends
python-apt -y -q
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following additional packages will be installed:
dirmngr gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client
gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm libapt-inst2.0 libassuan0 libksba8 libnpth0
pinentry-curses
python-apt-common
Suggested packages:
dbus-user-session libpam-systemd pinentry-gnome3 tor parcimonie
xloadimage scdaemon pinentry-doc python-apt-dbg python-apt-doc
Recommended packages:
lsb-release iso-codes
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dirmngr gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client
gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm libapt-inst2.0 libassuan0 libksba8 libnpth0
pinentry-curses python-
python-apt-common
0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/7575 kB of archives.
After this operation, 16.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously unselected package libassuan0:amd64.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'base-passwd' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~#
Thanks in advance for your help
best regards