[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#881709: dkms/stretch: Unavailable Suggests packages python3-apport
Gianfranco Costamagna
locutusofborg at debian.org
Tue Nov 14 13:58:41 UTC 2017
control: retitle -1 dkms, please stop suggesting experimental only python3-apport package, or move it to unstable
rmadison -u debian python3-apport
python3-apport | 2.16.2-1 | experimental | all
python3-apport | 2.16.2-2 | experimental | all
python3-apport | 2.17.2-1 | experimental | all
python3-apport | 2.17.3-1 | experimental | all
python3-apport | 2.19.3-1 | experimental | all
python3-apport | 2.20.4-3 | experimental | all
Package: dkms
Version: 2.3-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I fell over this issue after having installed linux-image and
virtualbox from stretch-backports [1].
Gianfranco (one of the Debian maintainer of virtualbox) encouraged me
to write this bug-report.
* What led up to the situation?
When installing...
# apt-get install -t stretch-backports virtualbox
...I see the following...
The following additional packages will be installed:
dkms libgsoap10 libvncserver1 virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt
Suggested packages:
python3-apport menu vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
Trying to install these suggested packages ends up in...
# LC_ALL=C apt install -t stretch-backports python3-apport menu vde2
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso -s
* What was the outcome of this action?
E: Package 'python3-apport' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'virtualbox-guest-additions-iso' has no installation candidate
* What outcome did you expect instead?
A suggested package should be installable via APT sources.list repositories.
Checking with apt-rdepends shows me...
# apt-rdepends -s Suggests virtualbox
virtualbox <--- stretch-backports/contrib
Suggests: vde2
Suggests: virtualbox-guest-additions-iso <--- XXX: n/a
dkms <--- stretch/main
Suggests: menu
Suggests: python3-apport <--- XXX: n/a
Gianfranco told me he dows not plan to backport
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso to stretch-backports.
python3-apport Package is only available in experimental.
Please, let me know if you need further informations.
Kind regards,
- Sedat -
[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-virtualbox-devel/2017-November/006772.html
[2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-virtualbox-devel/2017-November/006785.html
[3] https://packages.debian.org/python3-apport
P.S.: My stretch-backports APT sources.list
[ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports.list ]
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free
- EOF -
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii build-essential 12.3
ii coreutils 8.26-3
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24
ii gcc 4:6.3.0-4
ii kmod 23-2
ii make 4.1-9.1
ii patch 2.7.5-1+b2
Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii fakeroot 1.21-3.1
ii linux-headers-amd64 4.9+80+deb9u2
ii lsb-release 9.20161125
ii sudo 1.8.19p1-2.1
Versions of packages dkms suggests:
pn menu <none>
pn python3-apport <none>
-- no debconf information
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