Bug#910639: apt: jessie-backports is broken on arm64

[nadavr]

Package: apt
Version: 1.0.9.8.4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
I am no longer able to use Jessie-backports to retrieve arm64 packages.

Step 2/24 : COPY build_tools/dockerfiles/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list
---> 6081eac1de65
Step 3/24 : RUN dpkg --add-architecture arm64 ; apt-get update ; apt-get -y upgrade ; apt-get update && apt-get -y install wget gawk gperf help2man texinfo gcc gperf bison flex texinfo make libncurses5-dev python-dev && apt-get -y install libavcodec-dev:arm64 libavformat-dev:arm64 libswscale-dev:arm64 libjpeg-dev:arm64 libpng-dev:arm64 libtiff-dev:arm64 libdc1394-22:arm64 libdc1394-22-dev:arm64 libv4l-dev:arm64 ffmpeg:arm64 && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends libgtk2.0-dev:arm64 && apt-get remove -y cmake && apt-get clean -y
---> Running in b5709d0760d3
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports InRelease [166 kB]
Ign http://deb.debian.org oldstable InRelease
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org oldstable Release.gpg [2420 B]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org oldstable Release [148 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/main amd64 Packages [1172 kB]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/main amd64 Packages [23.0 kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/main arm64 Packages [1115 kB]
Get:8 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [20 B]
Get:9 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/non-free amd64 Packages [449 B]
Get:10 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/main arm64 Packages [22.8 kB]
Get:11 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/contrib arm64 Packages [20 B]
Get:12 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/non-free arm64 Packages [449 B]
Get:13 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/main amd64 Packages [9098 kB]
Get:14 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/contrib amd64 Packages [59.2 kB]
Get:15 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/non-free amd64 Packages [101 kB]
Get:16 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/main arm64 Packages [8593 kB]
Get:17 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/contrib arm64 Packages [41.2 kB]
Get:18 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/non-free arm64 Packages [68.6 kB]
Fetched 20.8 MB in 1min 1s (340 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
W: Size of file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_jessie-backports_main_binary-amd64_Packages.gz is not what the server reported 1171578 1171626
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
linux-libc-dev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1335 kB of archives.
After this operation, 792 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports/main linux-libc-dev amd64 4.9.88-1+deb9u1~bpo8+1 [1335 kB]
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Fetched 1335 kB in 0s (1748 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 19049 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-libc-dev_4.9.88-1+deb9u1~bpo8+1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-libc-dev:amd64 (4.9.88-1+deb9u1~bpo8+1) over (3.16.57-2) ...
Setting up linux-libc-dev:amd64 (4.9.88-1+deb9u1~bpo8+1) ...
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports InRelease
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/main amd64 Packages [1172 kB]
Ign http://deb.debian.org oldstable InRelease
Hit http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates InRelease
Hit http://deb.debian.org oldstable Release.gpg
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/main arm64 Packages [1115 kB]
Hit http://deb.debian.org oldstable Release
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/main amd64 Packages [23.0 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [20 B]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/non-free amd64 Packages [449 B]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/main arm64 Packages [22.8 kB]
Get:7 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/contrib arm64 Packages [20 B]
Get:8 http://deb.debian.org oldstable-updates/non-free arm64 Packages [449 B]
Get:9 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/main amd64 Packages [9098 kB]
Get:10 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/contrib amd64 Packages [59.2 kB]
Get:11 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/non-free amd64 Packages [101 kB]
Get:12 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/main arm64 Packages [8593 kB]
Get:13 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/contrib arm64 Packages [41.2 kB]
Get:14 http://deb.debian.org oldstable/non-free arm64 Packages [68.6 kB]
Fetched 20.3 MB in 28s (703 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
bison is already the newest version.
flex is already the newest version.
gawk is already the newest version.
gcc is already the newest version.
gcc set to manually installed.
gperf is already the newest version.
help2man is already the newest version.
make is already the newest version.
libncurses5-dev is already the newest version.
python-dev is already the newest version.
texinfo is already the newest version.
wget is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
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.
libdc1394-22-dev:arm64 : Depends: libc6-dev:arm64 but it is not going to be installed
libjpeg62-turbo-dev:arm64 : Depends: libc-dev:arm64
libpng12-dev:arm64 : Depends: zlib1g-dev:arm64 but it is not going to be installed
libtiff5-dev:arm64 : Depends: libc6-dev:arm64 but it is not going to be installed or
libc-dev:arm64
Depends: zlib1g-dev:arm64 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

The expected outcome, as seen in older logs building the same docker image, is that it just works.

Step 2/24 : COPY build_tools/dockerfiles/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list
---> Using cache
---> 752a59106c80
Step 3/24 : RUN dpkg --add-architecture arm64 ; apt-get update ; apt-get -y upgrade ; apt-get update && apt-get -y install wget gawk gperf help2man texinfo gcc gperf bison flex texinfo make libncurses5-dev python-dev && apt-get -y install libavcodec-dev:arm64 libavformat-dev:arm64 libswscale-dev:arm64 libjpeg-dev:arm64 libpng-dev:arm64 libtiff-dev:arm64 libdc1394-22:arm64 libdc1394-22-dev:arm64 libv4l-dev:arm64 ffmpeg:arm64 && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends libgtk2.0-dev:arm64 && apt-get remove -y cmake && apt-get clean -y
---> Using cache
---> 01f0759b318b
Step 4/24 : RUN apt-get -y install ccache
...

I don't know when it broke, but probably around this week or month. I really need the backports to install ffmpeg:arm64. Thanks in advance.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.11
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.93-linuxkit-aufs (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2017.5~deb8u1
ii gnupg 1.4.18-7+deb8u5
ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.9.8.4
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u10
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10+deb8u1
ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10+deb8u1

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none>
pn dpkg-dev <none>
ii python-apt 0.9.3.12

-- no debconf information

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