On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 12:26:10PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > That said, can you please try removing sqv and see what happens? apt should > > use > > gpgv then instead and that should work. > It cannot be removed without --force-depends since APT nowadays has > sqv as a hard Depends.
right.
> It would be a good idea for APT to list
> supported alternatives e.g. "sqv | gpgv" instead, preferably in the
> same order as dpkg-dev does.
I'm not sure why this isn't the case already, but maybe it's worth
cloning and reassigning this bug to src:apt.
> Once sqv was force-removed, APT indeed was able to update its APT
> lists. However, since a Depends was removed, it now cannot perform any
> useful operation until that missing dependency is resolved.
equivs helps with that, but is probably not installed :/
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