...but it would enable a simple solution, which would be "enable backports, upgrade apt, then go for the release upgrade", no?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1591490 Title: Please backport apt 1.0.9.2ubuntu2 from utopic (to fix do-release- upgrade) Status in trusty-backports: New Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: For me (and apparently many others), upgrading Ubuntu Trusty LTS to Ubuntu Xenial LTS fails because do-release-upgrade bails out because of apt error messages like this: Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-dev' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-wayland' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-x11' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'libkf5sysguard-dev' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-core' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-gnome' Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'libxapian-dev' It is caused by Debian bug #759099 [1] fixed in apt 1.0.7. Therefore I'm requesting a backport of "apt" to trusty. In the title I've suggested 1.0.9 from utopic - a more recent version might be fine too but when I tried to build the wily version on my local machine it couldn't because the g++ requirement had moved on too far. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759099 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/trusty-backports/+bug/1591490/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
