Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.13 "aptitude full-upgrade" failed to resolve conflicts properly, proposing many removals of vital packages. Meanwhile "aptitude safe-upgrade" proposed an ideal solution immediately.
This happened while using aptitude in Kubuntu, but I think Debian may have similar issues when upgrading related KDE packages. I upgraded Kubuntu 22.04 to 22.10 (which went smoothly), cleaned up any leftover obsolete packages afterwards (nothing important and related to this problem). Then I added (back) kubuntu-backports repository to get the latest version of KDE for Kubuntu 22.10 (upgrade from KDE 5.25.5 to 5.27.3) and tried to apply the updates with "aptitude full-upgrade". I attach solutions proposed by both "full-upgrade" and "safe-upgrade", and also aptitude's log on what "safe-upgrade" eventually did. It seems that the right solution (immediately proposed by "safe-upgrade") was to remove obsolete packages, mainly: - libkf5screen7 - libkwineffects13 - libkwinglutils13 and replace them with their newer releases (as required by other vital KDE packages): - libkf5screen8 - libkwineffects14 - libkwinglutils14 Instead "full-upgrade" tried to keep old versions of the above libraries while removing vital KDE packages that depended on them (kscreen, kwin-common, kwin-wayland, kwin-x11, libkscreenlocker5, libnotificationmanager1, powerdevil, ...). To my understanding, "full-upgrade" ought to be a stronger version of upgrade, that resolves conflicts at least as good as "safe-upgrade" while allowing to also remove packages in the process. But it should not *needlessly* propose removal of important packages, when there is a better solution (not requiring removal of vital packages), which "safe-upgrade" finds in no time. Is there a bug in "full-upgrade" conflict resolution in that case? Or is such thing supposed to occur for "full-upgrade" ? Maybe "full-upgrade" should simply begin with suggesting a solution that "safe-upgrade" would propose, if it is a sane one?
$ LANG=C sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Resolving dependencies...
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
thunderbird thunderbird-locale-en thunderbird-locale-en-us
thunderbird-locale-pl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libkdecorations2private10{a} libkf5archive-data{a} libkf5screen-data{a}
libkf5screen8{a} libkf5screendpms8{a} libkpipewire5{a} libkpipewiredmabuf5{a}
libkpipewirerecord5{a} libksanecore1{a} libkwineffects14{a} libkwinglutils14{a}
libqt5webview5{a} qml-module-org-kde-pipewire{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
encfs{u} kwin-wayland-backend-drm{u} libkdecorations2private9{u}
libkf5screen7{u} libkwineffects13{u} libkwinglutils13{u}
libkwinxrenderutils13{u} libtinyxml2-9{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
ark baloo-kf5 bluedevil breeze breeze-cursor-theme breeze-gtk-theme
breeze-icon-theme dolphin drkonqi elisa ffmpegthumbs firefox fonts-opensymbol
frameworkintegration gwenview kaccounts-integration kaccounts-providers
kactivities-bin kactivitymanagerd kamera kate kate5-data kcalc kde-cli-tools
kde-cli-tools-data kde-config-gtk-style kde-config-gtk-style-preview
kde-config-screenlocker kde-config-sddm kde-config-updates kde-spectacle
kde-style-breeze kde-style-oxygen-qt5 kdeconnect kded5 kdegames-card-data-kf5
kdegames-mahjongg-data-kf5 kdegraphics-thumbnailers kdenetwork-filesharing
kdeplasma-addons-data kdialog kdoctools5 keditbookmarks kgamma5 khelpcenter
khotkeys khotkeys-data kimageformat-plugins kinfocenter kinit kio kio-audiocd
kio-extras kio-extras-data kmahjongg kmenuedit kmines konsole konsole-kpart
konversation konversation-data kpackagelauncherqml kpackagetool5 kpat krdc
kross kscreen ksshaskpass ksudoku ksystemlog ksystemstats ktexteditor-data
ktexteditor-katepart ktorrent ktorrent-data kwalletmanager kwayland-data
kwayland-integration kwin-addons kwin-common kwin-data kwin-style-breeze
kwin-wayland kwin-x11 kwrited layer-shell-qt libcolorcorrect5 libdolphinvcs5
libkaccounts2 libkdecorations2-5v5 libkf5activities5 libkf5activitiesstats1
libkf5archive5 libkf5attica5 libkf5auth-data libkf5auth5 libkf5authcore5
libkf5baloo5 libkf5balooengine5 libkf5baloowidgets-bin libkf5baloowidgets5
libkf5bluezqt-data libkf5bluezqt6 libkf5bookmarks-data libkf5bookmarks5
libkf5calendarevents5 libkf5cddb5 libkf5codecs-data libkf5codecs5
libkf5compactdisc5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5config-bin
libkf5config-data libkf5configcore5 libkf5configgui5 libkf5configqml5
libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5contacts-data
libkf5contacts5
libkf5coreaddons-data libkf5coreaddons5 libkf5crash5 libkf5dbusaddons-bin
libkf5dbusaddons-data libkf5dbusaddons5 libkf5declarative-data
libkf5declarative5 libkf5dnssd-data libkf5dnssd5 libkf5doctools5
libkf5filemetadata-bin
libkf5filemetadata-data libkf5filemetadata3 libkf5globalaccel-bin
libkf5globalaccel-data libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5globalaccelprivate5
libkf5guiaddons-bin libkf5guiaddons-data libkf5guiaddons5 libkf5holidays-data
libkf5holidays5
libkf5i18n-data libkf5i18n5 libkf5i18nlocaledata5 libkf5iconthemes-bin
libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5iconthemes5 libkf5idletime5 libkf5itemmodels5
libkf5itemviews-data libkf5itemviews5 libkf5jobwidgets-data libkf5jobwidgets5
libkf5js5 libkf5jsapi5 libkf5kcmutils-data libkf5kcmutils5
libkf5kcmutilscore5 libkf5kdcraw5 libkf5kdegames-data libkf5kdegames7
libkf5kdelibs4support-data libkf5kdelibs4support5 libkf5kdelibs4support5-bin
libkf5kexiv2-15.0.0
libkf5khtml-bin libkf5khtml-data libkf5khtml5 libkf5kiocore5
libkf5kiofilewidgets5 libkf5kiogui5 libkf5kiontlm5 libkf5kiowidgets5
libkf5kirigami2-5 libkf5kmahjongglib5 libkf5krosscore5 libkf5krossui5
libkf5modemmanagerqt6
libkf5networkmanagerqt6 libkf5newstuff-data libkf5newstuff5
libkf5newstuffcore5 libkf5newstuffwidgets5 libkf5notifications-data
libkf5notifications5 libkf5notifyconfig-data libkf5notifyconfig5
libkf5package-data libkf5package5
libkf5parts-data libkf5parts-plugins libkf5parts5 libkf5people-data
libkf5people5 libkf5peoplebackend5 libkf5peoplewidgets5 libkf5plasma5
libkf5plasmaquick5 libkf5plotting5 libkf5prison5 libkf5pty-data libkf5pty5
libkf5purpose-bin libkf5purpose5 libkf5quickaddons5 libkf5runner5
libkf5sane-data libkf5sane5 libkf5screen-bin libkf5service-bin
libkf5service-data libkf5service5 libkf5solid5 libkf5solid5-data
libkf5sonnet5-data
libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5sonnetui5 libkf5style5 libkf5su-bin libkf5su-data
libkf5su5 libkf5syndication5abi1 libkf5syntaxhighlighting-data
libkf5syntaxhighlighting5 libkf5sysguard-bin libkf5sysguard-data
libkf5texteditor-bin
libkf5texteditor5 libkf5textwidgets-data libkf5textwidgets5
libkf5threadweaver5 libkf5torrent6abi1 libkf5unitconversion-data
libkf5unitconversion5 libkf5wallet-bin libkf5wallet-data libkf5wallet5
libkf5waylandclient5
libkf5widgetsaddons-data libkf5widgetsaddons5 libkf5windowsystem-data
libkf5windowsystem5 libkf5xmlgui-bin libkf5xmlgui-data libkf5xmlgui5
libkfontinst5 libkfontinstui5 libkpmcore12 libkscreenlocker5 libksgrd9
libksysguardformatter1 libksysguardsensorfaces1 libksysguardsensors1
libksysguardsystemstats1 libktorrent-l10n libkwalletbackend5-5 libkworkspace5-5
liblayershellqtinterface5 libnotificationmanager1 libokular5core10
liboxygenstyle5-5 liboxygenstyleconfig5-5 libpam-kwallet-common
libpam-kwallet5 libplasma-geolocation-interface5 libpowerdevilcore2
libpowerdevilui5 libprocesscore9 libprocessui9 libqmobipocket2
libreoffice-common
libreoffice-style-breeze libreoffice-style-colibre libtaskmanager6
libuno-cppu3 libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3 libuno-sal3 libuno-salhelpergcc3-3
libunwind8 libweather-ion7 milou okular okular-extra-backends oxygen-sounds
partitionmanager plasma-browser-integration plasma-calendar-addons
plasma-dataengines-addons plasma-desktop plasma-desktop-data plasma-discover
plasma-discover-backend-flatpak plasma-discover-backend-fwupd
plasma-discover-common
plasma-disks plasma-firewall plasma-framework plasma-integration plasma-nm
plasma-pa plasma-runners-addons plasma-systemmonitor plasma-thunderbolt
plasma-vault plasma-wallpapers-addons plasma-widgets-addons plasma-workspace
plasma-workspace-data plasma-workspace-wallpapers plasma-workspace-wayland
polkit-kde-agent-1 powerdevil powerdevil-data print-manager
qml-module-org-kde-activities qml-module-org-kde-bluezqt
qml-module-org-kde-draganddrop
qml-module-org-kde-kaccounts qml-module-org-kde-kcm
qml-module-org-kde-kcmutils qml-module-org-kde-kconfig
qml-module-org-kde-kcoreaddons qml-module-org-kde-kholidays
qml-module-org-kde-kio qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2
qml-module-org-kde-kitemmodels qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols
qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons qml-module-org-kde-ksysguard
qml-module-org-kde-kwindowsystem qml-module-org-kde-newstuff
qml-module-org-kde-people
qml-module-org-kde-prison qml-module-org-kde-purpose
qml-module-org-kde-qqc2desktopstyle qml-module-org-kde-quickcharts
qml-module-org-kde-runnermodel qml-module-org-kde-solid
qml-module-org-kde-sonnet
qml-module-org-kde-syntaxhighlighting sddm-theme-breeze
signon-kwallet-extension skanlite sonnet-plugins systemsettings
xdg-desktop-portal-kde
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
clinfo plasma-discover-backend-snap
349 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 4 downgraded, 8 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 478 MB/529 MB of archives. After unpacking 93.7 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
$ LANG=C sudo aptitude full-upgrade
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
thunderbird thunderbird-locale-en thunderbird-locale-en-us
thunderbird-locale-pl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
clinfo{a} libkdecorations2private10{a} libkf5archive-data{a} libkpipewire5{a}
libkpipewiredmabuf5{a} libkpipewirerecord5{a} libksanecore1{a}
libqt5webview5{a} qml-module-org-kde-pipewire{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
encfs{u} kwin-wayland-backend-drm{u} libkdecorations2private9{u}
libkf5screen7{u} libkwineffects13{u} libkwinglutils13{u}
libkwinxrenderutils13{u} libtinyxml2-9{u} libxcb-dpms0{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
ark baloo-kf5 bluedevil breeze breeze-cursor-theme breeze-gtk-theme
breeze-icon-theme dolphin drkonqi elisa ffmpegthumbs firefox fonts-opensymbol
frameworkintegration gwenview kaccounts-integration kaccounts-providers
kactivities-bin kactivitymanagerd kamera kate kate5-data kcalc kde-cli-tools
kde-cli-tools-data kde-config-gtk-style kde-config-gtk-style-preview
kde-config-screenlocker kde-config-sddm kde-config-updates kde-spectacle
kde-style-breeze kde-style-oxygen-qt5 kdeconnect kded5 kdegames-card-data-kf5
kdegames-mahjongg-data-kf5 kdegraphics-thumbnailers kdenetwork-filesharing
kdeplasma-addons-data kdialog kdoctools5 keditbookmarks kgamma5 khelpcenter
khotkeys khotkeys-data kimageformat-plugins kinfocenter kinit kio kio-audiocd
kio-extras kio-extras-data kmahjongg kmenuedit kmines konsole konsole-kpart
konversation konversation-data kpackagelauncherqml kpackagetool5 kpat krdc
kross kscreen{b} ksshaskpass ksudoku ksystemlog ksystemstats ktexteditor-data
ktexteditor-katepart ktorrent ktorrent-data kwalletmanager kwayland-data
kwayland-integration kwin-addons kwin-common{b} kwin-data kwin-style-breeze
kwin-wayland{b} kwin-x11{b} kwrited layer-shell-qt libcolorcorrect5
libdolphinvcs5 libkaccounts2 libkdecorations2-5v5 libkf5activities5
libkf5activitiesstats1 libkf5archive5 libkf5attica5 libkf5auth-data libkf5auth5
libkf5authcore5 libkf5baloo5 libkf5balooengine5 libkf5baloowidgets-bin
libkf5baloowidgets5 libkf5bluezqt-data libkf5bluezqt6 libkf5bookmarks-data
libkf5bookmarks5 libkf5calendarevents5 libkf5cddb5 libkf5codecs-data
libkf5codecs5
libkf5compactdisc5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5config-bin
libkf5config-data libkf5configcore5 libkf5configgui5 libkf5configqml5
libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5contacts-data
libkf5contacts5
libkf5coreaddons-data libkf5coreaddons5 libkf5crash5 libkf5dbusaddons-bin
libkf5dbusaddons-data libkf5dbusaddons5 libkf5declarative-data
libkf5declarative5 libkf5dnssd-data libkf5dnssd5 libkf5doctools5
libkf5filemetadata-bin
libkf5filemetadata-data libkf5filemetadata3 libkf5globalaccel-bin
libkf5globalaccel-data libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5globalaccelprivate5
libkf5guiaddons-bin libkf5guiaddons-data libkf5guiaddons5 libkf5holidays-data
libkf5holidays5
libkf5i18n-data libkf5i18n5 libkf5i18nlocaledata5 libkf5iconthemes-bin
libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5iconthemes5 libkf5idletime5 libkf5itemmodels5
libkf5itemviews-data libkf5itemviews5 libkf5jobwidgets-data libkf5jobwidgets5
libkf5js5 libkf5jsapi5 libkf5kcmutils-data libkf5kcmutils5
libkf5kcmutilscore5 libkf5kdcraw5 libkf5kdegames-data libkf5kdegames7
libkf5kdelibs4support-data libkf5kdelibs4support5 libkf5kdelibs4support5-bin
libkf5kexiv2-15.0.0
libkf5khtml-bin libkf5khtml-data libkf5khtml5 libkf5kiocore5
libkf5kiofilewidgets5 libkf5kiogui5 libkf5kiontlm5 libkf5kiowidgets5
libkf5kirigami2-5 libkf5kmahjongglib5 libkf5krosscore5 libkf5krossui5
libkf5modemmanagerqt6
libkf5networkmanagerqt6 libkf5newstuff-data libkf5newstuff5
libkf5newstuffcore5 libkf5newstuffwidgets5 libkf5notifications-data
libkf5notifications5 libkf5notifyconfig-data libkf5notifyconfig5
libkf5package-data libkf5package5
libkf5parts-data libkf5parts-plugins libkf5parts5 libkf5people-data
libkf5people5 libkf5peoplebackend5 libkf5peoplewidgets5 libkf5plasma5
libkf5plasmaquick5 libkf5plotting5 libkf5prison5 libkf5pty-data libkf5pty5
libkf5purpose-bin libkf5purpose5 libkf5quickaddons5 libkf5runner5
libkf5sane-data libkf5sane5 libkf5screen-bin{b} libkf5service-bin
libkf5service-data libkf5service5 libkf5solid5 libkf5solid5-data
libkf5sonnet5-data
libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5sonnetui5 libkf5style5 libkf5su-bin libkf5su-data
libkf5su5 libkf5syndication5abi1 libkf5syntaxhighlighting-data
libkf5syntaxhighlighting5 libkf5sysguard-bin libkf5sysguard-data
libkf5texteditor-bin
libkf5texteditor5 libkf5textwidgets-data libkf5textwidgets5
libkf5threadweaver5 libkf5torrent6abi1 libkf5unitconversion-data
libkf5unitconversion5 libkf5wallet-bin libkf5wallet-data libkf5wallet5
libkf5waylandclient5
libkf5widgetsaddons-data libkf5widgetsaddons5 libkf5windowsystem-data
libkf5windowsystem5 libkf5xmlgui-bin libkf5xmlgui-data libkf5xmlgui5
libkfontinst5 libkfontinstui5 libkpmcore12 libkscreenlocker5{b} libksgrd9
libksysguardformatter1 libksysguardsensorfaces1 libksysguardsensors1
libksysguardsystemstats1 libktorrent-l10n libkwalletbackend5-5 libkworkspace5-5
liblayershellqtinterface5 libnotificationmanager1{b} libokular5core10
liboxygenstyle5-5 liboxygenstyleconfig5-5 libpam-kwallet-common
libpam-kwallet5 libplasma-geolocation-interface5 libpowerdevilcore2
libpowerdevilui5 libprocesscore9 libprocessui9 libqmobipocket2
libreoffice-common
libreoffice-style-breeze libreoffice-style-colibre libtaskmanager6
libuno-cppu3 libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3 libuno-sal3 libuno-salhelpergcc3-3
libunwind8 libweather-ion7 milou okular okular-extra-backends oxygen-sounds
partitionmanager plasma-browser-integration plasma-calendar-addons
plasma-dataengines-addons plasma-desktop plasma-desktop-data plasma-discover
plasma-discover-backend-flatpak plasma-discover-backend-fwupd
plasma-discover-common
plasma-disks plasma-firewall plasma-framework plasma-integration plasma-nm
plasma-pa plasma-runners-addons plasma-systemmonitor plasma-thunderbolt
plasma-vault plasma-wallpapers-addons plasma-widgets-addons plasma-workspace
plasma-workspace-data plasma-workspace-wallpapers plasma-workspace-wayland
polkit-kde-agent-1 powerdevil{b} powerdevil-data print-manager
qml-module-org-kde-activities qml-module-org-kde-bluezqt
qml-module-org-kde-draganddrop
qml-module-org-kde-kaccounts qml-module-org-kde-kcm
qml-module-org-kde-kcmutils qml-module-org-kde-kconfig
qml-module-org-kde-kcoreaddons qml-module-org-kde-kholidays
qml-module-org-kde-kio qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2
qml-module-org-kde-kitemmodels qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols
qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons qml-module-org-kde-ksysguard
qml-module-org-kde-kwindowsystem qml-module-org-kde-newstuff
qml-module-org-kde-people
qml-module-org-kde-prison qml-module-org-kde-purpose
qml-module-org-kde-qqc2desktopstyle qml-module-org-kde-quickcharts
qml-module-org-kde-runnermodel qml-module-org-kde-solid
qml-module-org-kde-sonnet
qml-module-org-kde-syntaxhighlighting sddm-theme-breeze
signon-kwallet-extension skanlite sonnet-plugins systemsettings
xdg-desktop-portal-kde
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
plasma-discover-backend-snap
349 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 4 downgraded, 9 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 478 MB/529 MB of archives. After unpacking 92.8 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kwin-wayland : Depends: libkwineffects14 (=
4:5.27.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu22.10~ppa1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkwinglutils14 (=
4:5.27.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu22.10~ppa1) but it is not going to be installed
kscreen : Depends: libkf5screen8 (>= 4:5.27.3~) but it is not installable
Depends: libkf5screendpms8 (>= 4:5.27.3~) but it is not installable
powerdevil : Depends: libkf5screen8 (>= 4:5.27.3~) but it is not installable
Depends: libkf5screendpms8 (>= 4:5.27.3~) but it is not
installable
kwin-x11 : Depends: libkwineffects14 (= 4:5.27.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu22.10~ppa1)
but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkwinglutils14 (= 4:5.27.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu22.10~ppa1)
but it is not going to be installed
libkf5screen-bin : Depends: libkf5screen8 (=
4:5.27.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu22.10~ppa1) but it is not installable
Depends: libkf5screendpms8 (=
4:5.27.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu22.10~ppa1) but it is not installable
libkscreenlocker5 : Depends: libkf5screendpms8 (>= 4:5.27.3~) but it is not
installable
libnotificationmanager1 : Depends: libkf5screen8 (>= 4:5.27.3~) but it is not
installable
kwin-common : Depends: libkwineffects14 (= 4:5.27.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu22.10~ppa1)
but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkwinglutils14 (= 4:5.27.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu22.10~ppa1)
but it is not going to be installed
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) kinfocenter [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu1 (kinetic, now)]
2) kscreen [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu1 (kinetic, now)]
3) kubuntu-desktop [1.426 (kinetic, now)]
4) kubuntu-settings-desktop [1:22.10.4 (kinetic, now)]
5) kwin-addons [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu1 (kinetic, now)]
6) kwin-common [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu2 (kinetic, now)]
7) kwin-wayland [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu2 (kinetic, now)]
8) kwin-x11 [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu2 (kinetic, now)]
9) libkf5screen-bin [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu1 (kinetic, now)]
10) libnotificationmanager1 [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu4 (kinetic, now)]
11) plasma-desktop [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu1 (kinetic, now)]
12) plasma-widgets-addons [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu1 (kinetic, now)]
13) plasma-workspace [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu4 (kinetic, now)]
14) plasma-workspace-wayland [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu4 (kinetic, now)]
15) powerdevil [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu1 (kinetic, now)]
16) sddm-theme-breeze [4:5.25.5-0ubuntu4 (kinetic, now)]
Install the following packages:
17) sddm-theme-maya [0.19.0-3ubuntu1.2 (kinetic-updates)]
Keep the following packages at their current version:
18) kde-config-screenlocker [5.25.5-0ubuntu1 (kinetic, now)]
19) libkscreenlocker5 [5.25.5-0ubuntu1 (kinetic, now)]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
20) kubuntu-desktop recommends kscreen
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
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