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Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

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On 09/25/2020 08:53 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-09-25 at 07:48, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>
>> I am running up-to-date Buster, unfortunately there seems to be a bit of
>> a problem.
>>
>> Normally I run the update process several times a week with the command
>> sudo apr update && sudo apt upgrade.
>           ^
>
> I'm presuming this is a pure mail-writing typo.
Correct.
>> This morning this resulted in the error
>>
>> The following partially installed packages will be configured:
>>     brscan4
> As I think at least one other person has noted, this does not appear to
> be available in the Debian archives, at least not as far as I've managed
> to determine.
That's correct. It is pat of the Brother Laser Printer driver package.
>> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
>> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> E: Can't find a source to download version '0.4.8-1' of 'brscan4:amd64'
>> After unpacking 0 B will be used.
>> E: Can't find a source to download version '0.4.8-1' of 'brscan4:amd64'
> To my eye, this looks as if something is telling apt that version
> 0.4.8-1 is available somewhere, and the upgrade session is deciding that
> it needs to install that version, but then none of the configured
> sources include that version (and it's not already cached locally).
>
> What do
>
> $ apt-cache policy brscan4
> $ apt-cache rdepends brscan4
>
> say?
>
Thank you for your reply.

comp@AbNormal:~$ apt-cache policy brscan4
brscan4:
   Installed: 0.4.8-1
   Candidate: 0.4.8-1
   Version table:
  *** 0.4.8-1 100
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
comp@AbNormal:~$ apt-cache rdepends
E: No packages found

Suggestions?

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Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-09-25 13:50 +0200
  Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-09-25 14:50 +0200
    Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-09-25 15:10 +0200
      Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-25 15:20 +0200
        Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-09-25 15:40 +0200
          Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-25 17:20 +0200
        Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-09-26 09:20 +0200
  Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download Fabien Roucaute <fabien.roucaute@free.fr> - 2020-09-25 16:50 +0200
  Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2020-09-26 02:50 +0200
  Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-09-26 03:00 +0200
    Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-09-26 11:20 +0200
      Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-09-26 12:10 +0200
        Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-09-26 12:30 +0200
        Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-09-27 13:40 +0200
          Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-09-27 15:30 +0200
            Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-09-27 17:10 +0200
              Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-09-27 17:40 +0200
              Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-09-27 18:50 +0200
                Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-09-27 19:10 +0200
                Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-09-27 19:40 +0200
                Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-09-28 15:50 +0200
                Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2020-09-28 17:00 +0200
                Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-09-28 19:20 +0200

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