Package: initscripts Version: 2.88dsf-59.4 Followup-For: Bug #827705 Hi,
Do you mean this situation I'm in now? $ apt-cache policy initscripts initscripts: Installed: 2.88dsf-59.4 Candidate: 2.88dsf-59.6 Version table: 2.88dsf-59.6 500 500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages -1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages *** 2.88dsf-59.4 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ apt-cache policy sysvinit-utils sysvinit-utils: Installed: 2.88dsf-59.4 Candidate: 2.88dsf-59.4 Version table: 2.88dsf-59.6 500 500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages -1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages *** 2.88dsf-59.4 30000 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: initscripts{b} 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/84,0 kB of archives. After unpacking 2048 B will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: initscripts : Depends: sysvinit-utils (>= 2.88dsf-59.5) but 2.88dsf-59.4 is installed. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii coreutils 8.25-2 ii debianutils 4.7 ii lsb-base 9.20160601 ii mount 2.28-5 ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59.6 ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59.4 Versions of packages initscripts recommends: ii e2fsprogs 1.43.1-1 ii psmisc 22.21-2.1+b1 initscripts suggests no packages. -- no debconf information