On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 12:26:10PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > That said, can you please try removing sqv and see what happens? apt should 
> > use
> > gpgv then instead and that should work.
> It cannot be removed without --force-depends since APT nowadays has
> sqv as a hard Depends. 

right.

> It would be a good idea for APT to list
> supported alternatives e.g. "sqv | gpgv" instead, preferably in the
> same order as dpkg-dev does.

I'm not sure why this isn't the case already, but maybe it's worth
cloning and reassigning this bug to src:apt.

> Once sqv was force-removed, APT indeed was able to update its APT
> lists. However, since a Depends was removed, it now cannot perform any
> useful operation until that missing dependency is resolved.
 
equivs helps with that, but is probably not installed :/


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