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console-setup package

Bug #1721626
Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1721626

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Eric Desrochers (slashd) wrote on 2017-11-10:

The retention of console-setup in xenial-proposed is causing a side-effect on ubiquity [2.21.63.5] installation which depend specifically on that 1.108ubuntu15.4 version[1].
IMHO ubiquity should have been put on hold as well to make sure console-setup and ubiquity were release at the same time.

If the hang cannot be fix soon, meaning that console-setup will stay in -proposed for a while or maybe eventually drop ?
Maybe we should consider rolling back ubiquity to use console-setup 1.108ubuntu15.3 ? to at least unblock the dependencies created by last console-setup change[2]

[1] root@xenial:~# apt-get install ubiquity
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:
==> ubiquity : Depends: console-setup (>= 1.108ubuntu15.4) but 1.108ubuntu15.3 is to be installed <===
            Recommends: grub-pc but it is not going to be installed or
                        grub but it is not going to be installed or
                        grub-efi but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: dmraid but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: btrfs-tools but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: ubuntu-drivers-common but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: lvm2 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[2] debian/changelog

ubiquity (2.21.63.5) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick support for WPA2 Enterprise. LP: #1107935
  * Automatic update of included source packages: console-setup
    1.108ubuntu15.4.

-- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:45:29 +0000

Note: If we activate xenial-proposed and then install ubiquity, it works because the dependency is met.

Thoughts ?

If the hang cannot be fix soon, meaning that console-setup will stay in -proposed for a while or maybe eventually drop ? 
Maybe we should consider rolling back ubiquity to use console-setup 1.108ubuntu15.3 ? to at least unblock the dependencies created by last console-setup change[2]

[1] root@xenial:~# apt-get install ubiquity
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:
 ==> ubiquity : Depends: console-setup (>= 1.108ubuntu15.4) but 1.108ubuntu15.3 is to be installed <===
            Recommends: grub-pc but it is not going to be installed or
                        grub but it is not going to be installed or
                        grub-efi but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: dmraid but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: btrfs-tools but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: ubuntu-drivers-common but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: lvm2 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.