Bug#1040833: bind9-utils fail to install on bookworm due to dependencies

Antoine Gatineau

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Jul 11, 2023, 7:10:04 AM7/11/23

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Package: bind9-utils
Version: 1:9.18.12-1
Kernel version: Linux postgres-15 6.1.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.37-1 (2023-07-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hardware: KVM virtual machine

(sudo apt update was run before)
When installing bind9-utils, I get the error:
$ sudo apt install bind9-utils
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:
bind9-utils : Depends: bind9-libs (= 1:9.18.12-1) but 1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Furthermore, the bind9 related packages are not set to the same versions:
$ sudo apt list bind9\*
Listing... Done
bind9-dev/stable 1:9.18.12-1 amd64
bind9-dnsutils/stable-security,now 1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1 amd64 [installed]
bind9-doc/stable 1:9.18.12-1 all
bind9-host/stable-security,now 1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1 amd64 [installed]
bind9-libs/stable-security,now 1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
bind9-utils/stable 1:9.18.12-1 amd64
bind9/stable 1:9.18.12-1 amd64
bind9utils/stable 1:9.18.12-1 all

Solution:??? update bind9 bind9-utils bind9utils bind9-dev bind9-doc to version 1:9.18.12-1 in order to be consistent.

Regards

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Antoine Gatineau

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Jul 11, 2023, 7:40:05 AM7/11/23

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Probably not useful for the maintainer as they will surely stop it right away.

It appears the versions in stable-security and stable are not consistent.
Disabling stable-security source allows to install bind9-utils and dependencies. Eventually, one need to downgrade first some packages if they are already installed from stable-security.

I suggest pushing all the bind9 related packages to stable-security when pushing a new version of bind9 related packages in stable-security.

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Ondřej Surý

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Jul 11, 2023, 8:10:05 AM7/11/23

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What does:

apt-cache policy bind9-utils

output?

Ondřej
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> On 11. 7. 2023, at 13:03, Antoine Gatineau <antoine....@infra-monkey.com> wrote:
>
> Package: bind9-utils

Antoine Gatineau

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Jul 11, 2023, 9:00:05 AM7/11/23

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$ sudo apt-cache policy bind9-utils
bind9-utils:
Installed: 1:9.18.12-1
Candidate: 1:9.18.12-1
Version table:
1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1 500
500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages
*** 1:9.18.12-1 700
700 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Note that I had first installed version 1:9.18.12-1 by disabling bookworm-security. Then re-enabling it after the install.
This is a fresh debian 12 install.

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Marc Haber

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Jul 11, 2023, 12:30:05 PM7/11/23

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On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 02:52:38PM +0200, Antoine Gatineau wrote:
> $ sudo apt-cache policy bind9-utils
> bind9-utils:
> Installed: 1:9.18.12-1
> Candidate: 1:9.18.12-1
> Version table:
> 1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1 500
> 500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages
> *** 1:9.18.12-1 700
> 700 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This system is manually configured to prefer plain bookworm over
bookworm-security. Did you pin bookworm to priority 700 on purpose?
Usually, bookworm and bookworm-security are both at priority 500.

Greetings
Marc

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