AIUI, apt is meant to only balk about immediate configuration for packages that are essential or are dependencies of apt. libsasl2-2 is neither in the Ubuntu archive - do you know what modified packages you might have on your system that would cause apt to treat libsasl2-2 as essential?
Anyway, if this were reproducible in the official archive, I think everyone would be seeing it... since they aren't, I'm pretty sure this is a local issue, not a bug in the package. Closing as invalid. (It happens that this issue should go away for you in the next upload of cyrus-sasl2, because libsasl2-2 will no longer depend on libsasl2-modules. However, the circular dependency is not the bug here.) ** Changed in: cyrus-sasl2 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- Dependency cycle prevents upgrade of libsasl2-2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194140 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to cyrus-sasl2 in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs