[Bug 1922637] [NEW] held broken packages trying to upgrade from Groovy to Hirsute (Xubuntu, MATE)

[Mike Kupfer]

Public bug reported:

I have a VM that I've upgraded across several releases.  It was
originally installed with Xubuntu; I forget what release.  It's been
running Groovy (20.10) for a few months, and I recently (re)installed
MATE.  I ran "update-manager -d" to upgrade to Hirsute beta.  It failed
and suggested the problem might be transient.  But trying again a day or
2 later failed as well.  This time I checked the logs, and main.log
shows complaints about held broken packages.  I don't currently have any
broken packages (according to Synaptic), and "apt-mark showhold"
displays nothing, so I assume this is a packaging problem related to the
upgrade.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.10.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-48.54-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-48-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Mon Apr  5 21:15:00 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-16 (1085 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.4 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20180228)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2021-04-06 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade groovy groovy2hirsute

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Title:
  held broken packages trying to upgrade from Groovy to Hirsute
  (Xubuntu, MATE)

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have a VM that I've upgraded across several releases.  It was
  originally installed with Xubuntu; I forget what release.  It's been
  running Groovy (20.10) for a few months, and I recently (re)installed
  MATE.  I ran "update-manager -d" to upgrade to Hirsute beta.  It
  failed and suggested the problem might be transient.  But trying again
  a day or 2 later failed as well.  This time I checked the logs, and
  main.log shows complaints about held broken packages.  I don't
  currently have any broken packages (according to Synaptic), and "apt-
  mark showhold" displays nothing, so I assume this is a packaging
  problem related to the upgrade.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.10.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-48.54-generic 5.8.18
  Uname: Linux 5.8.0-48-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: MATE
  Date: Mon Apr  5 21:15:00 2021
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-16 (1085 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.4 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20180228)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2021-04-06 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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