do-release-upgrade phased updates

[jlittle]

I'd like to do a release upgrade to 23.04 on my desktop (from 22.10), but

$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.
$ sudo apt full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
gwenview kdegraphics-thumbnailers kio-extras kio-extras-data libkf5filemetadata-bin libkf5kexiv2-15.0.0 okular
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade.​

Think this is phased updates blocking do-release-upgrade, I try

$ sudo apt install gwenview
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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.
gwenview : Depends: libexiv2-27 (>= 0.27.5) but 0.27.3-3ubuntu3 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

and indeed

$ apt-cache policy gwenview
gwenview:
Installed: 4:21.12.3-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 4:22.08.2-0ubuntu1
Version table:
4:22.08.2-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic/universe amd64 Packages
*** 4:21.12.3-0ubuntu1 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

does not have "Phased Updates:". All the held packages above (that I checked) are tripping on libexiv2-27 (>= 0.27.5).

Aptitude's resolver wanted to remove dolphin, which I assume would be bad. There's only kinetic repos in /etc/apt/sources.list, and nothing in /etc/apt/sources.list.d.

Any ideas?

[Schwarzer Kater]

So do you remember where you did install Gwenview from? Did you have 22.04 installed before and then upgraded it (perhaps partly unsuccessfully) to 22.10?
Gwenview 22.08.2 is from the standard 22.10 Kinetic Kudo repositories - but you seem to have 21.12.3 installed (which is from 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish)…

Perhaps it would be good to check first if there are other components of Gear 21.12.3 (Kubuntu 22.04) still installed before proceeding?

[claydoh]

Definitely not phased updates, if you check each of the held packages.

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
gwenview : Depends: libexiv2-27 (>= 0.27.5) but 0.27.3-3ubuntu3 is to be installed​

That libexiv2-27 version 0.27.3-3ubuntu3 is pre-22.04.

What does apt policy on this show?

[jlittle]

What does apt policy on this show?

Thank you, that was it. The last 2 lines showed

*** 0.27.3-3ubuntu3 1001
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status​

What? I found /etc/preferences.d/libexiv-27 with Pin-Priority: 1001.

It was dated 2021-12-01, and my notes from that time say nothing. I noted a gwenview problem, it was hanging, that I resolved in June 2020 that I resolved by building gwenview from source to get a fix which wasn't coming till the next release, but no mention of a pin, which is just the sort of thing I keep notes for.

I have no recollection at all of doing that. I presume I was driven into rage mode, in which I can lose my mind and do stuff in desperation. Or maybe I was cutting and pasting some instructions; I try to avoid that normally.

Thanks again. I'll have to wait a little longer for 23.04.