RE: fwupdate is marked for autoremoval from testing
Regarding testing things with unstable, here is the results of a test run jumping from buster to unstable where I previously had fwupd fwupd-signed fwupd-amd64-sign and fwupdate installed.
root@d0801c4e20f3:/# apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
efibootmgr gcc-8-base libcurl3-gnutls libidn11 libip4tc0 libjson-c3 libnghttp2-14 libpopt0 libreadline7 librtmp1 libssh2-1 tpm2-abrmd tpm2-tools
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
fwupd-amd64-signed fwupdate-amd64-signed libfwup1
The following packages will be upgraded:
fwupd fwupdate
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2772 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1974 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 fwupd amd64 1.3.2-2 [2767 kB]
Get:2 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 fwupdate amd64 12-7 [5512 B]
Fetched 2772 kB in 1s (3463 kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 10715 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fwupd-amd64-signed (1.2.5+2) ...
Removing fwupdate-amd64-signed (12+4) ...
(Reading database ... 10705 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../fwupd_1.3.2-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fwupd (1.3.2-2) over (1.2.5-2) ...
dpkg: libfwup1:amd64: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
fwupdate depends on libfwup1 (= 12-4).
(Reading database ... 10743 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libfwup1:amd64 (12-4) ...
(Reading database ... 10738 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../fwupdate_12-7_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fwupdate (12-7) over (12-4) ...
Setting up fwupd (1.3.2-2) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/fwupd/daemon.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/fwupd/remotes.d/lvfs-testing.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/fwupd/remotes.d/lvfs.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/fwupd/remotes.d/vendor-directory.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/fwupd/remotes.d/vendor.conf ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/fwupd-refresh.timer → /lib/systemd/system/fwupd-refresh.timer.
Setting up fwupdate (12-7) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.29-2) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.16-2) ...
root@d0801c4e20f3:/#
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