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apport-collect 1954534 When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu- bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1954534 Title: package left in uninstallable state, due to "phased 20%" Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: My system has been left unable to install libpulse-dev because the staging has caused a dead-lock. The maintainer of libpulse has instructed me to open a bug against apt. See: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+question/699828 libpulse-dev wants a matched libpulse0 which is impossible. This is on Ubuntu 21.10 impish-updates There never was a non-ubuntu apt source in the config. The apt db is up to date. The system is up to date. xander@gamer2:~$ sudo apt install libpulse-dev [sudo] password for xander: 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 resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libpulse-dev : Depends: libpulse0 (= 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2) but 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1 is to be installed Depends: libpulse-mainloop-glib0 (= 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2) but 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. xander@gamer2:~$ apt-cache policy libpulse0 libpulse0: Installed: 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1 Candidate: 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1 Version table: 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.2 1 (phased 20%) 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-updates/main amd64 Packages *** 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2 500 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main amd64 Packages xander@gamer2:~$ apt-cache policy libpulse-dev libpulse-dev: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2 Version table: 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2.2 1 (phased 20%) 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-updates/main amd64 Packages 1:15.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2 500 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1954534/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp