libreoffice version conflict?

[Stan Schymanski]

Dear Daniel,

Thanks a lot for the quick and helpful reply! If you need someone to run
into rare problems, I'm your man! I'm glad that this one was not of my
own doing for a change. I didn't even notice that my laptop was not on
Progress Linux 5+ but only 5. Just running the upgrade, perhaps my
suspend problem will be gone as well after that.

Cheers
Stan

On 10/08/2020 19:54, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Hi Stan,
> 
> On 8/10/20 6:20 PM, Stan Schymanski wrote:
>> Does any one have an idea what could be the source of this problem
> 
> in April we discovered a rare niche-case in the upgrade path for
> stable-security-over-stable-but-no-backports where the security update
> merged from debian did not always have a higher version that what is in
> stable, but a lower version that stable-security (if and only if the
> debian source package is 1.0 native or 3.0 native; not for 1.0
> non-native or 3 quilt which make 99% of all packages in debian).
> 
> further more this nice-case is not a problem when apt pinning is
> correctly configured (default), and will go away by itself every three
> month when there is a stable point release where stable-security is
> folded into stable.
> 
> however, in order to fix this, we've adjusted the versioning-scheme in
> progress for the packages on top of debian stable in order to not have
> the three month delay in such cases.
> 
> now, you can do either of the following...
> 
>> and/or how to fix it?
> 
> either install libreoffice 7 from engywuck-backports (I'd recommend
> doing that, it's nicer than the 6.2 version from stable)..
> 
> or re-install the necessary packages on stable:
> 
> ---snip---
> PACKAGES="$(dpkg -l | grep 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u6+progress5u1 | awk '{ print
> $2 }')"
> 
> for PACKAGE in ${PACKAGES}
> do
> 	sudo dpkg --force-all -r ${PACKAGE}
> done
> 
> sudo apt update
> sudo apt install -y ${PACKAGES}
> ---snap---
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 

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