(Solved?) ghostscript held back by apt full-upgrade

[Member stevesr0]

Hi all,

The past few days I have noticed that full-upgrades have mentioned that ghostscript and ghostscript-x upgrades are available but are being held back. Tonight, I checked and found that their dependencies libgs10 and libgs-common were the apparent reason.

libgs10 and libgs-common replace libgs9 and libgs9-common but apt install considered them as new installs and I think that is why apt full-upgrade didn’t offer to install them and held back ghostscript and ghostscript-x upgrades.

When I ran apt install libgs10, automagically it sought to remove libgs9 and libgs9-common, install both libgs10 and libgs-common and upgrade ghostscript and ghostscript-x.

Since new packages have been automagically installed in the past on my Sid install when an upgrade required them, I am puzzled at the failure of this for the ghostscript upgrade.

stevesr0

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ghostscript is being held back because installing it at present time
will either break other packages or even or possibly the system.
apt runs checks to try and ensure any updates will not cause issues, it is
generaly reliable. Be patient most issues get fixed within a reasonable time
span.

You are running sid which undergoes constant change and is moving rapidly
toward a planned soft freeze in preparation for the next debian version.

Just updating without checking implications of changes is at present not
a good idea.

On my system forcing a ghostscript update would break Gimp and Gegl among other
packages. No way i want that.

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Hi Moddit,

Thanks for response.

I did check first. I ran a simulated apt install of ghostscript and there was no complaint.

I assume, on my system, there is nothing installed that the ghostscript upgrade would have broken.

I am surprised that “apt full-upgrade” will hold something back which “apt install” says it is happy to install.

Obviously, I agree that you should check before installing things that apt is reluctant to install…

stevesr0

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New versions of ghostscript and libgs10 and libgs-common in today’s full-upgrade. So I imagine that these are compatible with gimp…?

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Hmm, just woke up to posting in solved thread, anyways fits better here.

Hi stevesr0,
there must be differences in our installs and the ordering of held packages
trips up apt. While experimenting I did apt install gimp and the held package mess just
dissolved to an error free installation.

gimp is quickly moving and bug squashing toward the version 3 release,
2.99.12 in experimental repo so another update likely within next couple of weeks.

Means some present bugs fixed and new ones on the way, with a wonderful application
as complicated and powerful plus plugins being updated and in parts rewritten not
unexpected.

present 2.10.32 has bugs open, 18 classed critical but not everybody will run in to them.

Biggest issue for me is digesting all the changes, once Series 3 is out will need to relearn
some tasks for sure. That will be interesting.

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