Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.13-1+b1 Severity: normal When trying to upgrade current unstable, I encountered a dependency resolution issue I've never seen in aptitude before. Because "chromium conflicts with libavcodec58 (= 7:4.3-2)", aptitude suggested the solution of removing libavcodec58 and installing libavcodec-extra58. However, accepting that solution (pressing '!') then introduced new problems, where libavcodec-extra58's dependencies weren't satisfied. Accepting *that* solution by pressing '!' again turned up the problem that "chromium (upgrade, 81.0.4044.92-1 -> 83.0.4103.116-1) conflicts with libavcodec58 (= 7:4.3-2) (provided by libavcodec-extra58 7:4.3-2)". It seems like aptitude wasn't actually evaluating the consequences of its proposed dependency resolutions to ensure they reached a valid dependency state.
-- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.13 Compiler: g++ 9.3.0 Compiled against: apt version 6.0.0 NCurses version 6.2 libsigc++ version: 2.10.2 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.2.20200212 cwidget version: 0.5.18 Apt version: 6.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe12fe1000) libapt-pkg.so.6.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.6.0 (0x00007f8b63e9f000) libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f8b63e64000) libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f8b63e35000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f8b63e2c000) libcwidget.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4 (0x00007f8b63d26000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f8b63bfa000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.71.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.71.0 (0x00007f8b63bd1000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f8b639b7000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f8b63996000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f8b637c9000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f8b63684000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f8b6366a000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f8b634a5000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f8b6348d000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f8b63470000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f8b6345d000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f8b63434000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f8b63412000) libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f8b63333000) libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f8b63307000) libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f8b63259000) libgcrypt.so.20 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f8b6313c000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f8b644e8000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8b63137000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f8b6312a000) libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f8b63121000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f8b630fb000) -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.13-1 ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.1.6 ii libboost-iostreams1.71.0 1.71.0-6+b2 ii libc6 2.30-8 ii libcwidget4 0.5.18-5 ii libgcc-s1 10.1.0-4 ii libncursesw6 6.2-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.2-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.32.3-1 ii libstdc++6 10.1.0-4 ii libtinfo6 6.2-1 ii libxapian30 1.4.15-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12+nmu1 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn debtags <none> pn tasksel <none> -- no debconf information