Your message dated Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:25:00 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#822075: apt-file: Fails to install apt-file-2.5.4 due to requiring older perl-base-5.20 has caused the Debian Bug report #822075, regarding apt-file: Fails to install apt-file-2.5.4 due to requiring older perl-base-5.20 to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: apt-file Version: 2.5.4 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Attempted to install apt-file package and got an error On 2016/04/20, did a apt-get update/upgrade to ensure current up-to-date. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Executed the following command: apt-get install apt-file * What was the outcome of this action? Package did not install. Output is: sudo apt-get install apt-file 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: apt-file : Depends: libapt-pkg-perl but it is not going to be installed Depends: liblist-moreutils-perl but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. steve@arca:~/work/shockwave/jsunpack-n/depends/js-1.8.0-rc1-src/Linux_All_DBG.OBJ$ sudo apt-get install libapt-pkg-perl 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: libapt-pkg-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.20.0 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. * What outcome did you expect instead? apt-fail package to install successfully. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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--- Begin Message ---On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 05:46:53 +0000 Niels Thykier <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > [...] > > > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: stretch/sid > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This information is inconsistent and probably the cause. > * It claims your system is a Stretch/sid > * But your sources are stable (Jessie) > > vvvvvvvvvvvvv vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv > > APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') > > [...] > > > If this is true, then you are system is not in a supported configuration > (as you would have to downgrade packages). This is not limited to > apt-file, but to many packages. > > For Stretch/sid, the current version of apt-file is 3.0, which is > installable (provided you have Stretch or/and unstable as your primary > release and enabled in your sources) > > Thanks, > ~Niels > > Hi, I am closing this as "not a bug" given the above and no follow ups since then. Thanks, ~Niels
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