Package: manpages-de Version: 4.9.1-5 Severity: serious On several of my systems, manpages-de fails to upgrade from 4.2.0-1 to 4.9.1-5 as follows:
Get:1 https://debian.ethz.ch/debian sid/main amd64 manpages-de all 4.9.1-5 [2750 kB] Fetched 2750 kB in 0s (12.8 MB/s) E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package manpages-de:amd64 due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. E: Internal Error, Could not early remove manpages-de:amd64 (2) I though have no idea why apt regards manpages-de as essential. X-Debbugs-Cc'ing the APT developers at de...@lists.debian.org. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled manpages-de depends on no packages. manpages-de recommends no packages. Versions of packages manpages-de suggests: ii man-db [man-browser] 2.9.4-1 ii manpages 5.10-1 -- no debconf information
