Package: libpqxx-4.0 Severity: important Debian unstable has migrated to GCC-5, which has a new, and incompatible, ABI. https://wiki.debian.org/GCC5#libstdc.2B-.2B-_ABI_transition
As a result, libpqxx is no longer installable on Debian unstable. ===== # aptitude install libpqxx-4.0 The following NEW packages will be installed: libpqxx-4.0 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 224 kB of archives. After unpacking 523 kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libstdc++6 : Breaks: libpqxx-4.0 (<= 4.0.1+dfsg-3) but 4.0.1+dfsg-3 is to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: 1) libpqxx-4.0 [Not Installed] ===== The libpqxx packages need to be rebuilt with GCC-5 and may also require either a package rename or a soversion bump. >From the above link: "If the library is incompatible, rename the package, append 'v5' to the name of the package (e.g. libfoo2 -> libfoo2v5). Such a change can be avoided, if you have a soversion bump and you upload this version instead of the renamed package." -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)