Bug#955804: upgrade-reports: Packages on testing are broken due to dependencies to libevent

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Hi Franklin,

Sorry it took so long before somebody looked at your report. I
subscribed today, but apparently nobody was handling bugs against
upgrade-reports so far (or your bug fell through the cracks.

On Sun, 05 Apr 2020 11:08:53 +0800 Franklin Weng
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Many packages, including chromium, thunderbird, firefox-esr, are not able to
> upgrade due to dependent on libevent-2.1-6 while Debian testing has upgraded
> libevent to libevent-2.1-7.
>
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> Debian testing has upgraded to libevent-2.1-7 but packages of chromium,
> thunderbird, firefox-esr are still depending on libevent-2.1-6

I guess you have resolved the issue in the mean time. If not, or if you
still remember, which versions of chromium, thunderbird, firefox-esr are
you installing? I do hope the version in testing. I'm running all three
packages myself in bullseye, so either the issue is resolved, or the
upgrade process is broken somehow.

>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> Just apt update; apt upgrade

Maybe, you needed an apt full-upgrade to pull in additional packages.

> In my /etc/source.list I have testing repository and buster/update/main.
> Newest version of the above packages were from buster/update/main.
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> Unable to upgrade.
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> The above packages should be rebuilt depending on libevent-2.1-7

Packages are rebuild when transitions happen. I suspect instead of this
dependency, it is rather that those packages grew additional dependencies.

Paul