Package: apt-file
Version: 2.5.4
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
Attempted to install apt-file package and got an error
On 2016/04/20, did a apt-get update/upgrade to ensure current up-to-date.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
Executed the following command:
apt-get install apt-file
* What was the outcome of this action?
Package did not install. Output is:
sudo apt-get install apt-file
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:
apt-file : Depends: libapt-pkg-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: liblist-moreutils-perl but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
steve@arca:~/work/shockwave/jsunpack-n/depends/js-1.8.0-rc1-src/Linux_All_DBG.OBJ$
sudo apt-get install libapt-pkg-perl
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:
libapt-pkg-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.20.0
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
apt-fail package to install successfully.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
