reopen 1067486
reassign 1067486 apt
severity 1067486 normal
thanks
Am Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 11:46:02PM +0100 schrieb Julian Andres Klode:
Please upload a new version so grub-efi-amd64-signed can be installable. Thanks!
I'm getting a bit tired of this. This is normal, the packages are automatically generated but need to be approved by ftpteam.
This might be a normal condition but a) this is not transparent to user,
and b) it really does break apt's operation, at least partly.
For a) maybe we should make this somehow auto-checked remotely and shown
in reportbug? Or would you have a better idea?
And for b) all "dist-upgrade" or "full-upgrade" failed suddenly. Yes, failing, user getting completely locked out. And "upgrade" operation installed just a fraction of the potential candidates (there were more reasons for that but the lack of dist-upgrade feature is still PITA).
And the reason has not been obvious, and even debugging with -oDebug::pkgProblemResolver=true is NO FUN on bigger upgrades.
And the eventual solution was close examination, and some
guessing/observing that apt is confused and jumps between amd64 and
i386, and then some FORCE magic, i.e.
dpkg --remove --force-depends grub-common:i386
(don't ask me how this package got installed before, that system
installation has been migrated a lot). Another candidate was an old iproute:i386 package which I also had to remove.
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