I've set up a VM with the apt repo for OpenStack Victoria, and now I'm trying to install Designate/Victoria (version 11):
root@abogott-victoria-packages:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openstack-victoria-buster* deb http://mirrors.wikimedia.org/osbpo buster-victoria-backports main deb http://mirrors.wikimedia.org/osbpo buster-victoria-backports-nochange main root@abogott-victoria-packages:~# apt-cache policy designate-common designate-common: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:11.0.0-2~bpo10+1 Version table: 1:11.0.0-2~bpo10+1 500 500 http://mirrors.wikimedia.org/osbpo buster-victoria-backports/main amd64 Packages 1:7.0.0-2 500 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages root@abogott-victoria-packages:~# apt-get install designate-common 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: designate-common : Depends: python3-designate (= 1:11.0.0-2~bpo10+1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. root@abogott-victoria-packages:~# apt-get install python3-designate 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: python3-designate : Depends: python3-oslo.messaging (>= 12.4.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: python3-oslo.versionedobjects but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Looks like some python dependencies are missing, way at the bottom of the tree. Here's one example:
root@abogott-victoria-packages:~# apt-get install python3-confluent-kafka 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: python3-confluent-kafka : Depends: librdkafka1 (>= 1.2.1) but 0.11.6-1.1wmf1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. root@abogott-victoria-packages:~# apt-cache policy librdkafka1 librdkafka1: Installed: 0.11.6-1.1wmf1 Candidate: 0.11.6-1.1wmf1 Version table: 1.4.2-1~bpo10+1 500 500 http://mirrors.wikimedia.org/osbpo buster-victoria-backports-nochange/main amd64 Packages *** 0.11.6-1.1wmf1 1001 1001 http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia buster-wikimedia/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.11.6-1.1 500 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages