Exact same bug after wily to xenial update today. Backport from debian work as a dirty fix.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to usb-modeswitch in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1566058 Title: usb-modeswitch-data breaking usb-modeswitch install Status in usb-modeswitch package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: the title says it all, usb-modeswitch refuses to install with usb- modeswitch-data (20160112-1) root@hydra:/home/groo# apt install usb-modeswitch 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: usb-modeswitch : Depends: usb-modeswitch-data (>= 20140529) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. the only way around this is to allow it to install an older version, in this case 20151101-1. root@hydra:/home/groo# apt install usb-modeswitch 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: usb-modeswitch : Depends: usb-modeswitch-data (>= 20140529) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. root@hydra:/home/groo# aptitude install usb-modeswitch The following NEW packages will be installed: usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data{ab} 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 83,4 kB of archives. After unpacking 354 kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: usb-modeswitch-data : Breaks: usb-modeswitch (< 2.3.0) but 2.2.5+repack0-1ubuntu1 is to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: 1) usb-modeswitch [Not Installed] Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Install the following packages: 1) usb-modeswitch-data [20151101-1 (now, xenial)] Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y The following NEW packages will be installed: usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data{a} 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 82,8 kB of archives. After unpacking 351 kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Get: 1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 usb-modeswitch-data all 20151101-1 [31,4 kB] Get: 2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 usb-modeswitch amd64 2.2.5+repack0-1ubuntu1 [51,5 kB] Fetched 82,8 kB in 0s (107 kB/s) Supported Create a snapshot of '/tmp/apt-btrfs-snapshot-mp-kbekwndd/@' in '/tmp/apt-btrfs-snapshot-mp-kbekwndd/@apt-snapshot-2016-04-04_20:26:32' (Reading database ... 434406 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../usb-modeswitch-data_20151101-1_all.deb ... Unpacking usb-modeswitch-data (20151101-1) ... Preparing to unpack .../usb-modeswitch_2.2.5+repack0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking usb-modeswitch (2.2.5+repack0-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Setting up usb-modeswitch-data (20151101-1) ... Setting up usb-modeswitch (2.2.5+repack0-1ubuntu1) ... still present in xenial with all updates as of 04/04/2016 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-modeswitch/+bug/1566058/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
