libreoffice version conflict?

[Stan Schymanski]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks again for your quick help! So following your other answer, I
upgraded to Progress Linux 5+ and to LO 7, and the problem is now
slightly different, but I still don't know how to solve it. Could it be
that libreoffice-java-common is not compatible with LO 7?

$ libreoffice --version
LibreOffice 7.0.0.3 00(Build:3)

$ sudo apt-get install libreoffice-java-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libreoffice-java-common : Depends: libreoffice-common (=
1:6.1.5-3+deb10u6progress5u1) but 1:7.0.0-1~progress5+u1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.



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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