Il giorno lun 28 feb 2022 alle ore 14:50 Miguel A. Vallejo <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> The question is: > > Why is APT not smart enough to see that the proposed upgrade will fail? > > It always starts to install packages and at some point fails because > some package needs another package with a specific version. Why does > it not detect these cases after starting upgrading packages? It knows > the versions available for every package so it should prevent these > problems. > > Is it a bug or a missing APT feature? > I think the problem in which you incurred is not related to an APT bug or (missing) feature but rather a packaging bug ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1006538) that has been catched (and fixed) in sid. After all this is just the purpose of sid. BZ
