[Reportbug-maint] testdisk is removed after performing a dist-upgrade (missing libntfs-3g861 dependency)

[Bashir Barrage]

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From: Bashir Barrage <bashir at barragemail.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: testdisk: after updating and upgrading,
  performing dist-upgrade in Sid removes the testdisk package
Bcc: Bashir Barrage <bashir at barragemail.org>

Package: testdisk
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

After performing an update and upgrade, performing a dist-upgrade in Sid 
results in:

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   testdisk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libjson-c3 libntfs-3g871
The following packages will be upgraded:
   liblognorm2 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 libpulsedsp ntfs-3g 
pulseaudio
pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils rsyslog
9 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2,644 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,026 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 189065 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing testdisk (7.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libntfs-3g871.
(Reading database ... 189052 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libntfs-3g871_1%3a2016.2.22AR.1-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libntfs-3g871 (1:2016.2.22AR.1-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../ntfs-3g_1%3a2016.2.22AR.1-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ntfs-3g (1:2016.2.22AR.1-1) over (1:2015.3.14AR.1-1+b1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libjson-c3:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../libjson-c3_0.12-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libjson-c3:amd64 (0.12-3) ...
Preparing to unpack .../liblognorm2_1.1.2-1.1+b2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking liblognorm2:amd64 (1.1.2-1.1+b2) over (1.1.2-1.1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../rsyslog_8.16.0-1+b3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking rsyslog (8.16.0-1+b3) over (8.16.0-1+b1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libpulsedsp_8.0-2+b2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libpulsedsp:amd64 (8.0-2+b2) over (8.0-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../pulseaudio-utils_8.0-2+b2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking pulseaudio-utils (8.0-2+b2) over (8.0-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../pulseaudio-module-x11_8.0-2+b2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking pulseaudio-module-x11 (8.0-2+b2) over (8.0-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../pulseaudio_8.0-2+b2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking pulseaudio (8.0-2+b2) over (8.0-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libpulse-mainloop-glib0_8.0-2+b2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 (8.0-2+b2) over (8.0-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libpulse0_8.0-2+b2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libpulse0:amd64 (8.0-2+b2) over (8.0-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.22-7) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.5.0-1-amd64
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-3.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8411-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8411-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8402-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module
r8169
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.8-1) ...
Setting up libntfs-3g871 (1:2016.2.22AR.1-1) ...
Setting up ntfs-3g (1:2016.2.22AR.1-1) ...
Setting up libjson-c3:amd64 (0.12-3) ...
Setting up liblognorm2:amd64 (1.1.2-1.1+b2) ...
Setting up rsyslog (8.16.0-1+b3) ...
Setting up libpulse0:amd64 (8.0-2+b2) ...
Setting up libpulsedsp:amd64 (8.0-2+b2) ...
Setting up pulseaudio-utils (8.0-2+b2) ...
Setting up pulseaudio (8.0-2+b2) ...
Setting up pulseaudio-module-x11 (8.0-2+b2) ...
Setting up libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 (8.0-2+b2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.22-7) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.5.0-1-amd64
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-3.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8411-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8411-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8402-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module
r8169


I tried:

# apt-get install testdisk
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:
  testdisk : Depends: libntfs-3g861 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

# apt-get install libntfs-3g861
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libntfs-3g861 is not available, but is referred to by another 
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libntfs-3g861' has no installation candidate


No luck.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)