Bug#939160: grub-efi-amd64-signed: not installable, broken dependencies

[Matteo F. Vescovi]

Hi Colin!

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 12:31 PM Colin Watson  wrote:
> You're using unstable, which isn't guaranteed to stay
> dependency-consistent.  The way that the signed GRUB packages work means
> that there'll always be a short window after a grub2 upload to unstable
> when the corresponding signed packages aren't available yet, and you ran
> into that window.

Unlucky me, then! :-P

> grub-efi-amd64-signed should be installable again now in unstable; but
> if you want to avoid ever running into this problem, you'd be better off
> running testing.

But I'm a DD, I've always run unstable/sid and I'm ok with facing
these issues. No problem at all. ;-)
But it was necessary to report the problem, so other people could
discover it'd be addressed, sooner or later.
Thanks for fixing the issue so quickly!

Cheers.

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Bug#939160: grub-efi-amd64-signed: not installable, broken dependencies

[Matteo F. Vescovi]

Package: grub-efi-amd64-signed
Version: 1+2.04+2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi!

While trying to enable Secure Boot on my laptop installing mandatory
packages, I faced this:

 $ sudo apt install grub-efi-amd64-signed
 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:
  grub-efi-amd64-signed : Depends: grub-common (= 2.04-2) but 2.04-3 is to be 
installed
 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Thanks for the efforts spent fixing it.

Cheers.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 
'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages grub-efi-amd64-signed depends on:
ii  grub-common  2.04-3

Versions of packages grub-efi-amd64-signed recommends:
ii  shim-signed  1.33+15+1533136590.3beb971-7

grub-efi-amd64-signed suggests no packages.


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