libcec-dev package cannot be installed on up-to-date system

[Matt Hirsch]

In an up-to-date (as of 11/11) Raspbian 9 stretch the libcec-dev package cannot be installed.

1) sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade
2) sudo apt install libcec-dev

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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:
 libcec-dev : Depends: libcec4 (= 4.0.1+dfsg1-1+rpi1) but 4.0.2.3~stretch is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

$ sudo dpkg -s libcec
Package: libcec
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 36
Maintainer: Lars Op den Kamp <email address hidden>
Architecture: armhf
Version: 4.0.2.3~stretch
Depends: libcec4 (= 4.0.2.3~stretch)
Description: Meta package libCEC.
Homepage: http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/

$ sudo dpkg -s libcec4
Package: libcec4
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 601
Maintainer: Lars Op den Kamp <email address hidden>
Architecture: armhf
Multi-Arch: same
Source: libcec
Version: 4.0.2.3~stretch
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.5), libp8-platform2, libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libudev1 (>= 183), libx11-6, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.2)
Description: libCEC communication Library (shared library)
 This library provides support for the Pulse-Eight USB-CEC adapter.
 .
 This package provides the shared library.
Homepage: http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/

[peter green (plugwash)]

This is caused by the raspberry pi foundation packages and needs to be fixed from their side.

Reported at https://github.com/RPi-Distro/repo/issues/116

[Matt Hirsch (matthew-hirsch)]

Thank you! It was already helpful to know about libcec4-dev.