Tested by adding {xenial,artful}-{updates,proposed} to sources.list on a bionic system:
$ sudo apt install linux-tools-4.4.0-116 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 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: The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-tools-4.4.0-116 : Depends: binutils (< 2.27) but 2.30-8ubuntu1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ sudo apt install linux-tools-4.4.0-117 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libdw1 libelf1 libpci3 libunwind8 linux-tools-common The following NEW packages will be installed: libdw1 libelf1 libpci3 libunwind8 linux-tools-4.4.0-117 linux-tools-common 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 699 kB/1161 kB of archives. After this operation, 3933 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] ^C $ $ sudo apt install linux-tools-4.13.0-37-generic Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 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: The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-tools-4.13.0-37-generic : Depends: linux-tools-4.13.0-37 but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ sudo apt install linux-tools-4.13.0-38-generic Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libdw1 libelf1 libnuma1 libpci3 libunwind8 linux-tools-4.13.0-38 linux-tools-common The following NEW packages will be installed: libdw1 libelf1 libnuma1 libpci3 libunwind8 linux-tools-4.13.0-38 linux-tools-4.13.0-38-generic linux-tools-common 0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 1100 kB/1584 kB of archives. After this operation, 6991 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] $ So this works as expected. ** Tags removed: verification-needed-artful verification-needed-xenial ** Tags added: verification-done-artful verification-done-xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748922 Title: linux-tools: perf incorrectly linking libbfd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1748922/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs