Comment 7 for bug 1802321

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote (last edit ):

Still affects focal->jammy upgrades. See LP: #1986735. I ran into this myself.

Bit more discussion at:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1094062/libdvd-pkg-apt-get-check-failed-you-may-have-broken-packages-aborting

Issue apparently is a deliberate packaging choice in Debian, with rationale in this bug report:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824078

Offhand, it seems at least an improvement would be to print the suggested workaround (and maybe pointer to this bug report?) along with the error message.