Hi, Release: sid Arch: amd64
Trying to upgrade the qemu related packages, I got the following: # apt install qemu-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 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: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:i386 : Depends: libsoup2.4-1:i386 (>= 2.48) or libsoup-3.0-0:i386 but it is not going to be installed E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. A bit surprising output regarding that on my system: # apt --installed list | grep 'gstreamer1.0-plugins-good\|libsoup-3.0-0' gstreamer1.0-plugins-good/unstable,now 1.22.10-1 amd64 [installed] gstreamer1.0-plugins-good/unstable,now 1.22.10-1 i386 [installed] libsoup-3.0-0/unstable,now 3.4.4-5 amd64 [installed] libsoup-3.0-0/unstable,now 3.4.4-5 i386 [installed] By pulling the thread of the qemu-utils dependencies I finally found that it is related to libhogweed6t64:{amd64,i386} and so to libuuid1:i386 that did not yet reach the same version as for amd64 (2.39.3-10) in the archive. # apt install libuuid1:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 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: e2fsprogs : PreDepends: libuuid1 (>= 2.16) but it is not installable Recommends: e2fsprogs-l10n but it is not going to be installed librdf0t64 : Depends: librasqal3 (>= 0.9.31) libsm6 : Depends: libuuid1 (>= 2.16) but it is not installable util-linux : PreDepends: libuuid1 (>= 2.16) but it is not installable E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. # apt show libuuid1:i386 Package: libuuid1:i386 Version: 2.39.3-9 Priority: optional Section: libs Source: util-linux Maintainer: util-linux packagers <util-li...@packages.debian.org> Installed-Size: 80.9 kB Provides: libuuid1t64 (= 2.39.3-9) Depends: libc6 (>= 2.25) Recommends: uuid-runtime Breaks: libuuid1t64 (<< 2.39.3-9) Replaces: libuuid1t64 Homepage: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ Tag: role::shared-lib Download-Size: 30.9 kB APT-Sources: https://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main i386 Packages Description: Universally Unique ID library The libuuid library generates and parses 128-bit Universally Unique IDs (UUIDs). A UUID is an identifier that is unique within the space of all such identifiers across both space and time. It can be used for multiple purposes, from tagging objects with an extremely short lifetime to reliably identifying very persistent objects across a network. . See RFC 4122 for more information. But why is apt so obscure about this? Regards, Patrice