Re: apt-verify: unsupportable

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:20:38 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.apt.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Right, this is because 'apt' added a 'Conflicts: apt-verify' so
effectively 'apt-verify' and 'apt' cannot be co-installed unless you
override apt's default behaviour for Conflicts: handling.

/Simon

Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> writes:

> Just for the record, this is what happen when trying to install
> apt-verfiy now:
>
> Solving dependencies... Error!  
> 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:
>
> Unsatisfied dependencies:
>  apt : Conflicts: apt-verify but 2.0-1 is to be installed
> Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
>    1. apt-verify:amd64=2.0-1 is selected for install
>    2. apt-verify:amd64=2.0-1 is not selected for install because:
>       1. apt:amd64 is selected for install
>       2. apt:amd64 Conflicts apt-verify

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