Bug#1052058: apt: refuses to downgrade itself to a version that works on the system

2023-09-19 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Apologies. It seems that usrmerge had not successfully performed the merge (another issue). It was installed, as can be seen in my first message, but running /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge manually did the trick. It also merges /lib*. Thank you and with my best regards, On Tue, Sep 19,

Bug#1052058: apt: refuses to downgrade itself to a version that works on the system

2023-09-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 07:56:09PM -0400, Philippe Grégoire wrote: > As such, I can no longer install or remove packages since my system is > partitioned. I'd like to point out that the above link does not specifically > mention disk partitioning, but only how files are placed on disk. > >

Bug#1052058: apt: refuses to downgrade itself to a version that works on the system

2023-09-18 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Hi, I'm being hit hard by this at the moment. Context: ``` # apt --version apt 2.7.5 (amd64) # apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libavcodec59 libavdevice59 libavfilter8

Bug#1052058: apt: refuses to downgrade itself to a version that works on the system

2023-09-17 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Control: severity -1 serious As maintainer, I do consider this a blocker for testing migration. On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 08:36:21PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 2.7.5 > Severity: important > > > Once again we have a package that some people consider broken. That's >

Bug#1052058: apt: refuses to downgrade itself to a version that works on the system

2023-09-16 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: apt Version: 2.7.5 Severity: important Once again we have a package that some people consider broken. That's natural, disagreements happen. That apt insists on a bad scheme not supported by dpkg has been said about elsewhere. Normally, that would be solvable by a simple downgrade.