bruno zanetti - 28.02.22, 15:15:14 CET: > Il giorno lun 28 feb 2022 alle ore 14:50 Miguel A. Vallejo > <ea4...@gmail.com> > ha scritto: > > The question is: > > > > Why is APT not smart enough to see that the proposed upgrade will > > fail? > > > > It always starts to install packages and at some point fails because > > some package needs another package with a specific version. Why does > > it not detect these cases after starting upgrading packages? It > > knows > > the versions available for every package so it should prevent these > > problems. > > > > Is it a bug or a missing APT feature? > > I think the problem in which you incurred is not related to an APT > bug or (missing) feature but rather a packaging bug ( > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1006538) that has > been catched (and fixed) in sid. > After all this is just the purpose of sid.
Yes. And really, to everyone who is complaining: Debian Sid is also called Debian Unstable. For a reason! Either be prepared to handle the occasional glitch – in this case the glitch could be handled by using the appropriate dpkg force option. Or don't use it. It is really as simple as that. Best. -- Martin
