control: retitle -1 dkms, please stop suggesting experimental only python3-apport package, or move it to unstable
rmadison -u debian python3-apport python3-apport | 2.16.2-1 | experimental | all python3-apport | 2.16.2-2 | experimental | all python3-apport | 2.17.2-1 | experimental | all python3-apport | 2.17.3-1 | experimental | all python3-apport | 2.19.3-1 | experimental | all python3-apport | 2.20.4-3 | experimental | all Package: dkms Version: 2.3-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I fell over this issue after having installed linux-image and virtualbox from stretch-backports [1]. Gianfranco (one of the Debian maintainer of virtualbox) encouraged me to write this bug-report. * What led up to the situation? When installing... # apt-get install -t stretch-backports virtualbox ...I see the following... The following additional packages will be installed: dkms libgsoap10 libvncserver1 virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt Suggested packages: python3-apport menu vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Trying to install these suggested packages ends up in... # LC_ALL=C apt install -t stretch-backports python3-apport menu vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso -s * What was the outcome of this action? E: Package 'python3-apport' has no installation candidate E: Package 'virtualbox-guest-additions-iso' has no installation candidate * What outcome did you expect instead? A suggested package should be installable via APT sources.list repositories. Checking with apt-rdepends shows me... # apt-rdepends -s Suggests virtualbox virtualbox <--- stretch-backports/contrib Suggests: vde2 Suggests: virtualbox-guest-additions-iso <--- XXX: n/a dkms <--- stretch/main Suggests: menu Suggests: python3-apport <--- XXX: n/a Gianfranco told me he dows not plan to backport virtualbox-guest-additions-iso to stretch-backports. python3-apport Package is only available in experimental. Please, let me know if you need further informations. Kind regards, - Sedat - [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-virtualbox-devel/2017-November/006772.html [2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-virtualbox-devel/2017-November/006785.html [3] https://packages.debian.org/python3-apport P.S.: My stretch-backports APT sources.list [ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports.list ] deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free - EOF - -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dkms depends on: ii build-essential 12.3 ii coreutils 8.26-3 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 ii gcc 4:6.3.0-4 ii kmod 23-2 ii make 4.1-9.1 ii patch 2.7.5-1+b2 Versions of packages dkms recommends: ii fakeroot 1.21-3.1 ii linux-headers-amd64 4.9+80+deb9u2 ii lsb-release 9.20161125 ii sudo 1.8.19p1-2.1 Versions of packages dkms suggests: pn menu <none> pn python3-apport <none> -- no debconf information
