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Bug#876375: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#876375: linux-headers-amd64: metapackage references nonexistent linux-headers-4.12.0-1-amd64 on buster)

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#876375: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#876375: linux-headers-amd64: metapackage references nonexistent linux-headers-4.12.0-1-amd64 on buster)
Date 2017-09-23 01:50 +0200
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On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 14:44 +0100, Claudio Moretti wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I'm using "deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing main contrib
> non-free" which redirects to "http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/",
> but please note that this is also shown on packages.debian.org (
> https://packages.debian.org/buster/linux-headers-amd64).
> 
> If I do an apt-cache search linux-headers I can see
> linux-headers-4.12.0-2-amd64 available, but the linux-headers-amd64
> metapackage references linux-headers-4.12.0-1-amd64 (0-1 instead of 0-2),
> and linux-image-amd64 still tries to install 4.12.0-1 (instead of the
> available 4.12.0-2)..
> 
> This is from
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
[...]

This is fixed in unstable, just not yet in testing.

It's not clear to me how testing got into this state since there is an
automatic check for installability, but it's possible a member of the
release team mistakenly overrode that.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Horngren's Observation:
              Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

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Bug#876375: linux-headers-amd64: metapackage references nonexistent linux-headers-4.12.0-1-amd64 on buster Claudio Moretti <flyingstar16@gmail.com> - 2017-09-21 15:40 +0200
  Bug#876375: marked as done (linux-headers-amd64: metapackage  references nonexistent linux-headers-4.12.0-1-amd64 on buster) owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2017-09-21 23:40 +0200
  Bug#876375: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#876375: linux-headers-amd64: metapackage references nonexistent linux-headers-4.12.0-1-amd64 on buster) Claudio Moretti <flyingstar16@gmail.com> - 2017-09-22 15:50 +0200
    Bug#876375: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#876375: linux-headers-amd64: metapackage references nonexistent linux-headers-4.12.0-1-amd64 on buster) Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-09-23 01:50 +0200

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