Easiest solution: remove the breaks on gnome-software and plasma- discover and add a revert of this upstream patch: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/commit/1e43075ccaf55dd269f2406d758e332fd95cda39
Alternatively add the apt config snippet in the new GNOME Software package version to the one in Xenial and adjust the breaks to a lower version. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to appstream in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1661460 Title: appstream breaks installation as it is incompatible with gnome- software Status in appstream package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The latest xenial backports version of appstream has a breaks: gnome- software (<< 3.22.5-1) in its control file, but there is no version of gnome-software > 3.22 available in any xenial repos. This causes the installation process to break when backports are enabled. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/1661460/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
