appstream breaks installation as it is incompatible with gnome-software
Bug #1661460 reported by
Sebastian Unger
This bug affects 5 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Xenial Backports |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Yakkety Backports |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
appstream (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
The latest xenial backports version of appstream has a breaks: gnome-software (<< 3.22.5-1) in its control file, but there is no version of gnome-software > 3.22 available in any xenial repos.
This causes the installation process to break when backports are enabled.
Changed in appstream (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in yakkety-backports: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in xenial-backports: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in yakkety-backports: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
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Example excerpt of a debian installer log:
Feb 3 00:31:15 pkgsel: starting tasksel
Feb 3 00:31:19 in-target: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Passthrough
Feb 3 00:31:19 in-target: debconf: (Failed to open fd 3: Bad file descriptor at (eval 19) line 3.)
Feb 3 00:31:19 in-target: debconf: falling back to frontend: Noninteractive
Feb 3 00:31:19 in-target: ^MExtracting templates from packages: 35%
Feb 3 00:31:19 in-target: ^MExtracting templates from packages: 70%
Feb 3 00:31:19 in-target: ^MExtracting templates from packages: 100%
Feb 3 00:32:23 in-target: Reading package lists...
Feb 3 00:32:23 in-target:
Feb 3 00:32:23 in-target: Building dependency tree...
Feb 3 00:32:23 in-target:
Feb 3 00:32:23 in-target: Reading state information...
Feb 3 00:32:23 in-target:
Feb 3 00:32:24 in-target: crda is already the newest version (3.13-1).
...
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: xz-utils is already the newest version (5.1.1alpha+ 20120614- 2ubuntu2) . git20161013. 0.d77d6cf- 0ubuntu2~ xenial1 is to be installed
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: xz-utils set to manually installed.
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: or been moved out of Incoming.
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target:
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: appstream : Breaks: gnome-software (< 3.22.5-1) but 3.20.1+
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: E
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: :
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target:
Feb 3 00:32:25 in-target: tasksel: apt-get failed (100)
Feb 3 00:32:25 main-menu[3385]: WARNING **: Configuring 'pkgsel' failed with error code 1
Feb 3 00:32:25 main-menu[3385]: WARNING **: Menu item 'pkgsel' failed.