In Ubuntu16.04 latest release, phoronix-test-suite could not be installed through "apt install ...."

[clockzhong]

After ubuntu upgrade to 16.04, we couldn't install phoronix-test-suite now, it will always report the following errors:

sudo apt install phoronix-test-suite

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:
 phoronix-test-suite : Depends: php5-cli but it is not installable
                       Depends: php5-gd but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

The root cause for this error is that Ubuntu16.04 upgraded the PTS to a newer version which depends on the PHP7-XXX packages, and Ubuntu16.04 really upgraded its PHP5-XXX to PHP7-XXX, but in the APT package management system dependency system, it still requests the PHP5-XXX packages as it dependencies, so this is a package management bug in Ubuntu16.04, please help fix it in your newer release.

Thanks!

ClockZHONG

[clockzhong (clockzhong)]

The detailed discussion could be found here:
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/phoronix-test-suite/873336-can-t-install-pts-6-2-1-under-ubuntu-16-04-x64/page2

The discussion happens between the PTS's owner and me, and he confirms this is a bug in Ubuntu16.04 package management, I agree with him.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.