When I run sudo apt update and sudo apt full-upgrade today, I got the odd series of items listed for removal. Should I do something or wait for few days? I do not think reform-desktop-full should belong for removal.
shigeru@mntpr-0:~$ sudo reform-check
I: Contents of /proc/device-tree/model: MNT Pocket Reform with i.MX8MP Module
I: `uname -a` output: Linux mntpr-0 6.16.8-mnt-reform-arm64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 6.16.8-1+reform20250910T145641Z (2025-09-1 aarch64 GNU/Linux
I: Version of linux-image-mnt-reform-arm64: 6.16.8-1+reform20250910T145641Z
I: Version of reform-tools: 1.78-1+reform20250901T183925Z+1
I: Version of system image: System Image v4: 2024-08-20
I: Version of system controller firmware: 20250623
I: Version of keyboard firmware: 20250623
I: probably booting via /boot/boot.scr (/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf does not exist)
I: Mount source of /: /dev/reformvg/root (LVM vg 'reformvg' on LUKS device 'reform_crypt' on SSD)
I: Mount source of /boot: /dev/mmcblk2p1 (eMMC)
I: the following files differ from how they are shipped by reform-tools (ignore /var/lib/alsa/asound.state):
??5?????? /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
You are using Debian unstable and the package reform-desktop-full depends on a lot of stuff. If you attempt to install the package on a minimal system then apt will install 1366 packages which need 4.3 GiB of additional disk space to install. It is no surprise that reform-desktop-full will be uninstallable regularly in unstable. Right now, the reform-tools package is even marked for autoremoval on October 5 due to eight RC bugs: #1097171, #1097554, #1114123, #1114193, #1114302, #1114305, #1114367, #1115136. Sometimes people ask how they can help. This is the kind of stuff I do in my free-time which is usually invisible because things generally work. But keeping things working takes a few hours each day…
Right now the problem is that kde-style-breeze is uninstallable because it needs libkf6iconthemes6 which in turn needs qt6-base-private-abi but we are in the middle of the Qt 6.9.2 transition so qt-related packages will be uninstallable for a bit: Transition: Qt 6.9.2
You can let apt tell you what went wrong by running it with -oDebug::pkgProblemResolver=true -oDebug::pkgDepCache::Marker=1. This will generate a lot of output. With the new resolver, a maybe friendlier output is created by manually selecting the package of which you want to know the removal-reason of for installation. In your case, you’d run sudo apt install --simulate reform-desktop-full and it should tell you about the qt situation.
I have not proceeded with the full-upgrade, but aborted, so the current result of the command was:
shigeru@mntpr-0:~$ sudo apt install --simulate reform-desktop-full
reform-desktop-full is already the newest version (1.78-1+reform20250901T183925Z+1).
Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 109
As I understand, your recommendation is that I should wait for a while until the bugs get settled. I appreciate very much for your continued enthusiastic devotion for us and quick response.
Yes, as long as your full upgrade wants to remove reform-desktop-full, don’t do a full upgrade (unless of course you are fine with the removal).
I appreciate your reports. Personally I run Debian stable to not have to worry about these things but I also know that if everybody runs stable, then no bugs will be found before the next stable release and then the bugs will land in stable. Somebody unfortunately needs to run into bugs so that they can be fixed. So I very much am glad about everybody who runs unstable and (like you) reports the issues they find. I am happy to hear about any issue you and others find. Thank you for taking your time to report them!
I just ran apt update and apt full-upgrade, and no item was listed for removal. Thus I went forward and did the full-upgrade. The rebooted system seems to be working fine. But with the few warnings in the full-upgrade process as shown. Should I be concerned about them?
shigeru@mntpr-0:~$ sudo apt full-upgrade
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
librav1e0.7
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
Upgrading:
assistant-qt6 libqt6qmlmeta6
designer-qt6 libqt6qmlmodels6
ffmpeg libqt6qmlworkerscript6
freerdp3-x11 libqt6quick6
gnome-terminal libqt6quickcontrols2-6
gnome-terminal-data libqt6quickshapes6
gnustep-common libqt6quicktemplates2-6
gnustep-multiarch libqt6quickwidgets6
gstreamer1.0-gtk3 libqt6sql6
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good libqt6sql6-sqlite
heif-gdk-pixbuf libqt6svg6
heif-thumbnailer libqt6test6
iw libqt6uitools6
jq libqt6waylandclient6
kio6 libqt6waylandcompositor6
libavcodec61 libqt6widgets6
libavdevice61 libqt6wlshellintegration6
libavfilter10 libqt6xml6
libavformat61 librnp0
libavif-gdk-pixbuf libsss-certmap0
libavif16 libsss-idmap0
libavutil59 libsss-nss-idmap0
libfreerdp-client3-3 libswresample5
libfreerdp-server3-3 libswscale8
libfreerdp3-3 libteamdctl0
libfyaml0 libunbound8
libheif-plugin-aomenc libwinpr3-3
libheif-plugin-dav1d libx264-165
libheif-plugin-libde265 linguist-qt6
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libipa-hbac0t64 nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal
libjq1 openvpn
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libkf6kiogui6 qml6-module-qtquick-shapes
libkf6windowsystem6 qml6-module-qtquick-templates
libkf6xmlgui6 qml6-module-qtquick-window
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libnss-sss qt6-tools-dev
libpam-sss qt6-tools-dev-tools
libpostproc58 qt6-translations-l10n
libpq5 qt6-wayland
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libqt6network6 sssd-proxy
libqt6opengl6 usb-modeswitch
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libqt6printsupport6 waybar
libqt6qml6 wpasupplicant
Installing dependencies:
libbotan-3-7 librav1e0.8 qml6-module-qt-labs-qmlmodels
Summary:
Upgrading: 148, Installing: 3, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
Download size: 63.3 MB
Space needed: 12.8 MB / 708 GB available
Continue? [Y/n]
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I only see the warnings from sssd. Unfortunately I am not familiar with sssd so I am unable to tell you what exactly these warnings are trying to tell you. You could go ahead and report a bug about confusing warning messages to the package maintainer if you like.
To be honest I have no clue how sssd has gotten installed. Maybe a part of standard packages or recommended items. I am not aware any configuration on my Pocket Reform using its feature. I will keep mindful of it for a while.
