On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 01:43:11AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 12:33:08PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > > Are there instructions on how to progress an unstable system through
> > > > this, or is the repo currently in a known inconsistent state?  I have
> > > > tried upgrading various packages to work through deps but I am unable
> > > > to do a dist-upgrade for a while.
> > > Being unable to do a dist-upgrade is expected and some packages can't be
> > > installed or can't be upgraded, but in general on amd64 you should be able
> > > to upgrade a majority of them with `apt upgrade` and then manual
> > > installing/upgrading, if you wish so (as in theory most libfoo0t64 are
> > > drop-in replacements for libfoo0, but in practice some packages have
> > > additional abi deps for their plugins etc., plus the usual amd64-i386
> > > skews, plus some unique problems in some packages).
> > > Also debootstrapping sid is broken, or may be broken from time to time.
> > > Install testing instead if that's good enough.

> > Aside from the libuuid1t64 revert, for which binNMUs have been scheduled, I
> > actually would expect unstable to be dist-upgradeable on non-32-bit archs:
> > either the existing non-t64 library will be kept installed because nothing
> > yet needs the t64 version, or something does want the t64 version and apt
> > will accept it as a replacement for the non-t64 version because it Provides:
> > the non-t64 name.

> > So once the libuuidt64 revert is done (later today?), if apt dist-upgrade is
> > NOT working, I think we should want to see some apt output showing what's
> > not working.
> On my system there is currently only one problem not related to libuuid:
> vlc-plugin-pipewire is not rebuilt for vlc-plugin-abi-3-0-0ft64. As for
> uuid, I have several i386 libraries installed that depend on it.

That seems like a case where the maintainer (cc:ed) could add the
vlc-plugin-abi-3-0-0f Provides: on 64-bit archs for backwards-compatibility
to unblock.  Or someone can just request binNMUs for this package sooner
rather than later.  (It's premature to request mass binNMUs yet while arm*
are still being re-bootstrapped.)

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