Bug#1053092: initscripts: cannot upgrade to 3.08-1: APT dependency loop

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Package: initscripts
Version: 3.07-1
Severity: important

$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get --option Debug::pkgDepCache::AutoInstall=true install initscripts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Removing: udev:i386 as upgrade is not an option for initscripts:i386 (3.08-1)
Installing linux-image-6.5.0-1-686:i386 as Depends of linux-image-686:i386
Installing initramfs-tools:i386 as Depends of linux-image-6.5.0-1-686:i386
Installing linux-image-6.5.0-1-686:i386 as Depends of linux-image-686:i386
Installing initramfs-tools:i386 as Depends of linux-image-6.5.0-1-686:i386
Installing linux-image-6.5.0-1-686:i386 as Depends of linux-image-686:i386
Installing initramfs-tools:i386 as Depends of linux-image-6.5.0-1-686:i386
Installing linux-image-6.5.0-1-686:i386 as Depends of linux-image-686:i386
Installing initramfs-tools:i386 as Depends of linux-image-6.5.0-1-686:i386
Installing linux-image-6.5.0-1-686:i386 as Depends of linux-image-686:i386
Installing initramfs-tools:i386 as Depends of linux-image-6.5.0-1-686:i386
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:
initramfs-tools : Depends: initramfs-tools-core (= 0.142) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU thread; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii sysv-rc 3.08-1
ii sysvinit-utils 3.08-1

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii e2fsprogs 1.47.0-2+b1
ii psmisc 23.6-1

initscripts suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Lorenzo]

Control: severity -1 whishlist

Hi,

On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 08:14:19 +0300
Martin-Éric Racine <martin-er...@iki.fi> wrote:

> Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU thread; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
> Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=fi:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

I guess this is the effect of

https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/commit/eecd735541c9d5deb9cebd5f2512e7da8b4368a9

that adds a conflicts with initscripts. You can remove initscripts or
reassign to systemd as whishlist, explaining why you need both
initscripts and systemd-sysv installed.

Regards,
Lorenzo

[Mark Hindley]

Martin,

Thanks for this.

I am not sure there is a bug here anyway. there is an ongoing migration of
/etc/init.d/udev from bin:udev to bin:initscripts. src:sysvinit 3.08-1 (which
has taken over the file and breaks/replaces udev << 254.3-1 ) has migrated to
testing[1], however the migration of src:systemd 254.4-1 is blocked by
autopkgtest regressions[2].

Once a suitable version of src:systemd migrates to testing, I think apt will be
able to resolve the dependencies.

Mark

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1465552/sysvinit-308-1-migrated-to-testing/

[2] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=systemd