Bug#989236: crossgrader: crashes with "Could not mark python3-apt:amd64 for install, fixing manually."
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 4:26 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > But, is there _any_ case when crossgrader might possibly work? As it needs > python-apt-common, it will always fail. That makes the package useless. > Should we bump #968458 to a RC severity? crossgrader won't be able to work if python3-apt cannot be crossgraded, so there's no case where it would work. Would #968458 merit critical for breaking unrelated software? > It appears to me that hardly anyone had the opportunity to test crossgrader... Unfortunately, that much is true... However, even without the Multi-Arch changes for python-apt-common, crossgrader works around the problem in Buster without user input required. Perhaps some part of APT was changed which prevents it from working.
Bug#989236: crossgrader: crashes with "Could not mark python3-apt:amd64 for install, fixing manually."
Hello! This behavior is due to python-apt-common not being marked as Multi-Arch: foreign. I have already filed a bug report at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968458 If you would like to continue, you can modify the python-apt-common entry in /var/lib/dpkg/status to include Multi-Arch: foreign and run crossgrader again. I'm not quite sure why this is stopping crossgrader on Bullseye but not on Buster; I'll look into it.
Bug#968458: python-apt-common: mark as Multi-Arch: foreign
Package: python-apt-common Version: 1.8.4.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, APT is having trouble cross-grading python-apt to a foreign architecture as the python-apt-common package cannot satisfy foreign architecture dependencies. It seems to me that python-apt-common is safe to mark as M-A: foreign, which would solve this problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- no debconf information
Bug#812228: Multi-Arch support for dh-python
Pinging this bug, any progress? It is blocking crossgrading with GNOME
installed (affects python3-pil and python3-cairo).
On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 22:38:22 +0300 Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The correct approach is actually to disallow py{,3}compile in
> Multi-Arch: same packages.
>
> It does not even make much sense since it is not possible to install
> multiple architectures of the python interpreter at the same time,
> and in normal cases the package could just be binary-all.
>
> gir1.2-ibus-1.0 is a bit special for that, and the approach taken for
> that is to have no byte-compilation (and no python dependencies).
>
> The latter is not perfect, but seems to be acceptable for a very
> special situation (the python module is an optional part of an
> architecture-specific package). If anything should be improved
> on that, the python module should be split out of the package.
>
> cu
> Adrian
--
Best,
Kevin
Bug#966533: ITP: crossgrader -- Debian crossgrading tool
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Wu * Package name: crossgrader Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Kevin Wu * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/crossgrading-team/debian-crossgrading * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Python 3 Description : Debian crossgrading tool This package provides a tool to crossgrade (i.e. change the architecture) of a Debian install. It also provides a tool to check if all packages were successfully crossgraded. The crossgrader automatically handles packages required by the initramfs, packages marked as automatically installed, and crossgrades to architectures not natively supported on the current CPU. crossgrader is the result of my Google Summer of Code 2020 project. Steve McIntyre is my mentor, so he will most likely be my sponsor as well. I plan on maintaining it myself.
