Upgrade Planner fails on Scheduler with error "Target versions you've selected have dependencies that are not met"

Products

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs

Issue/Introduction

There is an issue when targeting Scheduler 1.6.3+ in Upgrade Planner that blocks generating the plan with following error
 

Error:
Target versions you've selected have dependencies that are not met, according to our metadata. Please check your entries and dependencies on Tanzu Network.
   Scheduler requires
      Java Buildpack 4.49.*, 4.50.*, 4.51.*, 4.52.*, 4.53.*, 4.54.*, 4.55.*, 4.56.*, or 4.57.*

Please check your entries and dependencies on Tanzu Network and update your plan accordingly.

This error will be shown even if you have targeted a TAS version that does met the Java Buildpack dependency.  E.g. You have targeted TAS 2.13.19, that is shipped with 4.56, which is in the dependency list.

Environment

Product Version: 2.13

Resolution

The workaround for this is to add Java Buildpack pack in "Manually Add Tiles" section and select a version that meets the dependency in both Current and Target version. E.g 4.49.1. This will bypass the lock and allow to generate a plan.

Please, notice that there is another issue in Upgrade Planner and Java Buildpack that only shows versions with 3 digits. E.g It will show 4.49.1, but not 4.56. There is a dedicated KB article that explains this issue in detail.

Summarizing. This issue has 2 parts:

• One is that Upgrade Planner shows there is a dependency not met, when it's actually met.
• The other is that when adding Java Buildpack to workaround the above issue, it only shows versions with 3 digits.