Source: gammaray Severity: serious Justification: Policy 7.2 Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** When attempting to install (through aptitude or apt-get) the dependancy to the virtual package qtbase-abi-5-3-2 somehow prevents this to complete. This is a log of apt-get installation actions exposing the issue. user@host:~$ sudo apt-get check Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done user@host:~$ sudo apt-get install gammaray 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: gammaray : Depends: qtbase-abi-5-3-2 Recommends: gammaray-probe-qt4 but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. user@host:~$ sudo apt-get install qtbase-abi-5-3-2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package qtbase-abi-5-3-2 is a virtual package provided by: libqt5core5a 5.3.2+dfsg-4+deb8u1 [Not candidate version] E: Package 'qtbase-abi-5-3-2' has no installation candidate user@host:~$ sudo apt-get install libqt5core5a Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libqt5core5a is already the newest version (5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1). libqt5core5a set to manually installed. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 707 not upgraded. user@host:~$ It seems that libqt5core5a is already there, providing qtbase-abi-5-3-2, yet somehow this does not satisfy the gammaray package dependency. Hope you can sort out why. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)