Package: qemu-system-sparc Version: 1:2.6+dfsg-3.1~bpo8+1 Severity: grave Tags: newcomer Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer, if openbios-sparc is not available in jessie-backports. So only the release from jessie could be used. But the acutal jessie-backports openbios-sparc needs openbios-sparc >= 1.1+svn1395-1~. root@host:/etc/apt# apt-get install qemu-system-sparc 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: qemu-system-sparc : Depends: openbios-sparc (>= 1.1+svn1395-1~) but 1.1+svn1306-2 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. root@nihilnihil:/etc/apt# apt-cache policy qemu-system-sparc openbios-sparc qemu-system-sparc: Installed: 1:2.6+dfsg-3.1~bpo8+1 Candidate: 1:2.7+dfsg-3~bpo8+2 Version table: 1:2.7+dfsg-3~bpo8+2 0 600 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports/main amd64 Packages *** 1:2.6+dfsg-3.1~bpo8+1 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 0 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages openbios-sparc: Installed: 1.1+svn1306-2 Candidate: 1.1+svn1306-2 Version table: *** 1.1+svn1306-2 0 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pierre Bernhardt <pie...@starcumulus.owl.de> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> Subject: qemu-system-sparc: Needed openbios-sparc not available in jessie-backports Bcc: Pierre Bernhardt <pie...@starcumulus.owl.de> So also the upgrade fails. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages qemu-system-sparc depends on: ii libaio1 0.3.110-1 ii libasound2 1.0.28-1 ii libbluetooth3 5.23-2+b1 ii libbrlapi0.6 5.3.1-1~bpo8+1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6 ii libcacard0 1:2.5.0-2~bpo8+1 ii libfdt1 1.4.0+dfsg-2~bpo8+1 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libglib2.0-0 2.48.0-1~bpo8+1 ii libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.8-6+deb8u3 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.3.1-12 ii libncurses5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libnettle4 2.7.1-5+deb8u1 ii libpixman-1-0 0.32.6-3 ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-2+deb8u2 ii libpulse0 7.1-2~bpo8+1 ii libsasl2-2 2.1.26.dfsg1-13+deb8u1 ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15-10+b1 ii libseccomp2 2.2.3-3~bpo8+1 ii libspice-server1 0.12.5-1+deb8u3 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.19-1 ii libusbredirparser1 0.7-1 ii libuuid1 2.25.2-6 ii libvdeplug2 2.3.2+r586-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxen-4.4 4.4.1-9+deb8u7 ii libxenstore3.0 4.4.1-9+deb8u7 ii openbios-sparc 1.1+svn1306-2 ii qemu-system-common 1:2.7+dfsg-3~bpo8+2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages qemu-system-sparc recommends: ii ipxe-qemu 1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1 ii qemu-utils 1:2.7+dfsg-3~bpo8+2 ii seabios 1.7.5-1 Versions of packages qemu-system-sparc suggests: pn qemu-block-extra <none> ii samba 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3 pn vde2 <none> -- no debconf information