Seems to be with Visual Studio Code. I said yesterday that it had got into a funny state. Well I created a new VM and installed the Raspberry Pi OS that runs in a VM and after it updated tried installing VS Code on it.

It would have had the same problem had I let it. The problem is it when you install VS Code, it has some unmet dependencies and in fixing them it wants to remove 8 essential packages and this breaks apt which then gets in a funny state.

No one wants to see this scary message! So I think I may have to use the Code.headmelted.com version on Hyper-V for a while and see if this gets resolved with the next update of VS Code. Ah the jots of software development…