After that, upgrading was unblocked.
It doesn't make a lot of sense why the above would be a problem, except python-gi maybe as it was python2.7 dependent.
Most have since been reinstalled with newer versions. Somehow it couldn't detect this path, but there was no issue with installing the upgraded packages back in.
Blocking packages: info-manager- dev (and dependencies)
python-gi
openscenegraph (and libraries)
libcamera-
libroscpp-dev
libxmlrpcpp-dev
libb64-dev
After that, upgrading was unblocked.
It doesn't make a lot of sense why the above would be a problem, except python-gi maybe as it was python2.7 dependent.
Most have since been reinstalled with newer versions. Somehow it couldn't detect this path, but there was no issue with installing the upgraded packages back in.