Bug#953047: python3.8: Packages requiring python3 < 3.8 doesn't install even when 3.7 is available

2020-03-03 Thread Matthias Klose
Control: severity -1 normal

On 3/3/20 8:44 PM, Sajjad Kabir Joy wrote:
> Package: python3.8
> Version: 3.8.2-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Installation of packages depending on samba failed, and when I tried 
> installing samba itself I got this:

If you don't know how to handle that, you shouldn't install packages from
unstable.  Please wait a few days/weeks until things are rebuilt.



Bug#953047: python3.8: Packages requiring python3 < 3.8 doesn't install even when 3.7 is available

2020-03-03 Thread Sajjad Kabir Joy
Package: python3.8
Version: 3.8.2-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Installation of packages depending on samba failed, and when I tried installing 
samba itself I got this:

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:
 samba : Depends: python3 (< 3.8) but 3.8.2-1 is to be installed
 Depends: python3-samba but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: samba-common-bin (= 2:4.11.5+dfsg-1) but it is not going to 
be installed
 Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.11.5+dfsg-1) but it is not going to be 
installed
 Recommends: attr but it is not going to be installed
 Recommends: python3-markdown but it is not going to be installed
 Recommends: samba-dsdb-modules but it is not going to be installed
 Recommends: samba-vfs-modules but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I installed python3.7 (3.7.6-1), but that didn't fix the problem. I 
additionally enabled Testing repositories, to no avail. As a result, I can't 
install anything (like mpv, gvfs-backend etc) that requires python3 < 3.8. Not 
to mention --fix-broken didn't help, either.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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 /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages python3.8 depends on:
ii  libpython3.8-stdlib  3.8.2-1
ii  mime-support 3.64
ii  python3.8-minimal3.8.2-1

python3.8 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python3.8 suggests:
pn  binutils
pn  python3.8-doc   
pn  python3.8-venv  

-- no debconf information