Comment 3 for bug 1946235

Yes, I've done the following.

apt update
apt upgrade

However, qemu is not mentioned in any part of the output from those steps. Though it is installed:

$ apt-cache policy qemu-system-x86 | head -n 3
qemu-system-x86:
  Installed: 1:6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu1

The problems with pcscd arose after using the update-manager to move from 21.04 to 21.10-beta. pcscd is a dependency for another package which is the main reason for using Ubuntu instead of another distro. Specifically it is a smart card reader needed to interact with an increasing number of government sites and services.

After removing qemu-block-extra, I get the following when trying to install pcscd :

# apt install pcscd
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:
 pcscd : Depends: libpcsclite1 (= 1.9.1-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.