Package: libpango1.0-0 Version: 1.42.4-8 Severity: important The libpango1.0-0 transitional package was recently dropped from pango1.0, which would be fine except that it leaves systems in a broken state unable to upgrade libpango-1.0-0.
The problem arises from some 3rd party sources providing deb packages that users might reasonably want to use, - google-talkplugin for accessing Google Hangouts on firefox - flashplugin-nonfree for managing Adobe flash plugin. (admittedly the latter is in Debian contrib, we can fix it ourselves) There's also dropbox, not that I'd recommend people to use dropbox but sometimes they don't have a choice. The problem is the tight version dependency in libpango1.0-0, Depends: libpango-1.0-0 (= 1.42.4-8) So once you dropped libpango1.0-0, it's stuck at 1.42.4-8, no path forwards for upgrading to libpango-1.0-0 1.44.7-3. The transitional package libpango1.0-0 needs to be provided to fix this situation, and needs to be provided without the tight version dependency, libpango1.0-0 Depends: libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.44.7-3) libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.44.7-3) libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.44.7-3) libpangox-1.0-0 (>= 1.44.7-3) libpangoxft-1.0-0 (>= 1.44.7-3) Only after that kind of open transitional dependency can the transitional package be dropped. Probably this should be fixed also in libpango1.0-0 1.42.4-7~deb10u2 for buster, unless you want to keep the fixed transitional package in for another release cycle. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libpango1.0-0 depends on: ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-8 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-8 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.42.4-8 ii libpangox-1.0-0 0.0.2-5+b2 ii libpangoxft-1.0-0 1.42.4-8 libpango1.0-0 recommends no packages. libpango1.0-0 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
