Kali does not upgrade - held broken packages?

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I think I have a solution for this issue. I made a Kali template from debian-11 clone, switching repos to debian-12 (testing or something like that), adding kali repo keys and repos, install kali packages (as far as I remembeer I used kali-large metapackage).

For me, this worked (do this inside “faulty” kali template):

sudo apt update
sudo apt-mark unhold qubes-gui-agent
sudo apt reinstall qubes-gui-agent
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Note: If you did not previously hold the qubes-gui-agent with apt-mark, just skip that step.

This will reinstall qubes-gui-agent from deb11 repo to deb12 repository. After this I am able to update kali template as usually.

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