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Bug#964477: libc6-dev: Fails to cleanly upgrade from Stable



Hi,

On 2020-07-19 18:48, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello Aurelien,
> sorry for answering late, I was a few days offline.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 09:45:55PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > On 2020-07-07 21:04, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > Package: libc6-dev
> > > Version: 2.28-10
> > > Severity: important
> > > 
> > > Until a few hours ago I run stable. Switching sources to testing and
> > > then
> > > apt-get update
> > > apt-get upgrade
> > > 
> > > worked. Now:
> > > 
> > > apt-get dist-ugprade tells me the following:
> > > 
> > > root@samd:~# LC_ALL=C apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > Reading package lists... Done
> > > Building dependency tree
> > > Reading state information... Done
> > > Calculating upgrade... Error!
> > > 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:
> > >  libc6-dev : Breaks: libgcc-8-dev (< 8.4.0-2~) but 8.3.0-6 is to be installed
> > > E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
> > 
> > This break entry is correct, if we remove it gcc-8 will be left
> > potentially broken after the upgrade. I have no idea how it can be fixed
> > on the glibc side.
> 
> Who would be the best party to fix this? (Sorry, at the moment I don't
> have a clue what causes this problem).

I guess apt developers might be able to help there.

> > > If I try to remove either libc6-dev or libgcc-8-dev then a long list of 
> > > programms is scheduled for deinstallation, e.g. lots of KDE, okular, libreoffice etc.
> > 
> > Have you tried installing gcc-defaults from testing before starting the
> > upgrade?
> 
> I did an upgrade today (dist-upgrade is still broken) and for some
> strange reason I cannot install gcc-defaults:
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package gcc-defaults
> 
> I also get this in an current (unrelated) sid chroot. Strange.

Oops sorry. gcc-defaults is the source package. You should try with one
of the corresponding binary packages, like gcc or g++.

Aurelien

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