Armbian buster libc-dev-bin upgrade held back

[Rob van der Linde]

Hi, I have been running Armbian Buster on an Odroid HC1 for a while but today one upgrade is held back:

 

The following packages have been kept back:
 libc-dev-bin
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded.

This is why:

 

$ sudo apt install libc-dev-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
 linux-libc-dev
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
Recommended packages:
 manpages manpages-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
 armbian-config build-essential g++ g++-8 libc6-dev libstdc++-8-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
 libc-dev-bin
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 31 not upgraded.
Need to get 267 kB of archives.
After this operation, 44.0 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Obviously I have picked no, because I don't want to uninstall armbian-config

It seems I have this wierd "oldstable" mess when I type the following:

 

$ sudo apt list --upgradable --all-versions  
Listing... Done
libc-dev-bin/oldstable 2.28-10+deb10u1 armhf [upgradable from: 2.28-10]
libc-dev-bin/now 2.28-10 armhf [installed,upgradable to: 2.28-10+deb10u1]

libc6-dev/oldstable 2.28-10+deb10u1 armhf [upgradable from: 2.28-10]
libc6-dev/now 2.28-10 armhf [installed,upgradable to: 2.28-10+deb10u1]

libssl-dev/oldstable 1.1.1n-0+deb10u1 armhf [upgradable from: 1.1.1d-0+deb10u7]
libssl-dev/oldstable 1.1.1d-0+deb10u8 armhf
libssl-dev/now 1.1.1d-0+deb10u7 armhf [installed,upgradable to: 1.1.1n-0+deb10u1]

 

How did this happen? Is it fixable or time for a reinstall?

By the way this has to run Debian 10, I know Debian 11 is out but the software this device runs requires Debian 10 still at this stage.

Edited March 27, 2022 by Rob van der Linde
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[Rob van der Linde]

I think the issue is not Armbian but the software I was running on it: 3CX

I have done a reinstall, reinstalled 3CX and it seems to be OK now but I did notice that after installing 3CX it wanted to downgrade a few packages which was a hint that it wasn't Armbian doing this.

Seems OK now though.