[Bug 1591490] Re: Please backport apt 1.0.9.2ubuntu2 from utopic (to fix do-release-upgrade)

[Jeremy Bicha]

If upgrading from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS fails, then simply backporting
a package won't be enough since backports aren't installed by default.

** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Please backport apt 1.0.9.2ubuntu2 from utopic (to fix do-release-
  upgrade)

Status in trusty-backports:
  New
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  For me (and apparently many others), upgrading Ubuntu Trusty LTS to
  Ubuntu Xenial LTS fails because do-release-upgrade bails out because
  of apt error messages like this:

  
  Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin'
  Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-dev'
  Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-wayland'
  Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'kwin-x11'
  Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'libkf5sysguard-dev'

  Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-core'
  Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-gnome'
  Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'libxapian-dev'

  
  It is caused by Debian bug #759099 [1] fixed in apt 1.0.7. Therefore I'm requesting a backport of "apt" to trusty.

  In the title I've suggested 1.0.9 from utopic - a more recent version
  might be fine too but when I tried to build the wily version on my
  local machine it couldn't because the g++ requirement had moved on too
  far.

  
  [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759099

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