github actions build-mingw and build-build-mingw32 are failing

[dengert]

Problem Description

github actions build-mingw and build-build-mingw32 started failing with several PR checks.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine32:i386 : Depends: libwine:i386 (= 5.0-3ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: Process completed with exit code 100.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine32:i386 : Depends: libwine:i386 (= 5.0-3ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: Process completed with exit code 100.

On my XUbuntu-20.4, synaptic has a dependencies "Breaks:wine32" which may be a clue.
(The OS was upgraded over the years.)

Could the "held broken packages" be caused by doing upgrades of the actions?

https://wiki.debian.org/Wine
lists a different set of packages to install.

https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/blob/master/.github/setup-linux.sh#L28

These might help in figuring out what to do:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1204823/wine32i386-depends-libwinei386-3-0-1ubuntu1-but-it-is-not-going-to-be-i
which points at:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

Proposed Resolution

none

[Jakuje]

I tried to look into this last week, but without any success so far. I tried to run the same scripts in podman container and all worked fine (the same as it worked until last week in github actions) so I assume the github/azure mirror is somehow broken, providing broken dependencies, but I am not expert on debian packaging.

I also tried to get some more debug logs from apt, but it was not much helpful so far:

https://github.com/Jakuje/OpenSC/runs/4351244711?check_suite_focus=true
Jakuje@d090ba6

Suggestions/patches/ideas how to solve this are welcomed.

[Jakuje]

For the record, I tried a lot of stuff, but there is something badly broken in the github images.

It changed between https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/runs/4316990114?check_suite_focus=true (good) and https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/runs/4325865048?check_suite_focus=true (bad), which updated image:

13 Version: 20211114.1                      |   13 Version: 20211122.1 

The new image from today should show up in couple of days, hopefully fixing this issue. Probably not

This brought me to the issue actions/runner-images#4589 which proposes a workaround (yeah! Fix all the existing CI scripts because we installed some conflicting package and we do not support multiarch).

[dengert]

I have been trying a lot of stuff too. Glad you found a workaround until gihhub fixes it correctly, and asked them to reopen it. actions/runner-images#4589 (comment)