On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 04:24:58PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2015-01-15 21:32, Niko Tyni wrote: > > So, even if we add the Breaks in perl-modules+perl-base, it looks like > > something else is needed. AFAICS either we need to somehow ensure that > > dpkg is upgraded first, or the xfonts-traditional trigger functionality > > needs to handle missing modules gracefully. > > Do we have a list of packages that "trigger" xfonts-traditional? > Could they (or some of them or a common ancestor) depend on > dpkg (>= 1.17.triggerfixed)
>From the xfonts-traditional triggers file: interest-noawait /usr/share/fonts/X11 interest-noawait /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm interest-noawait /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias apt-file finds 91 packages in sid matching /usr/share/fonts/X11. That's a bit much. > > I'd love to hear thoughts on this. Also, my earlier questions still apply: > > does this imply that all packages with strict versioned dependencies > > and the like should more or less duplicate that information in Breaks > > entries ? > > I think this list can be reduced to "Uses 'perl stuff that requires > strict dependencies' in their maintainer scripts." My point was that this is potentially a much wider issue, not limited to perl. But concentrating on this specific issue which is clearly RC for jessie: assuming we don't want to change all the 91 font packages, I see these possibilities: a) - make xfonts-traditional 'postinst triggered' survive missing dependencies - make perl-base+perl-modules+perl Break xfonts-traditional older than that b) - make perl-base+perl-modules Break: perl (<< 5.20.0~) - make perl-base+perl-modules+perl Pre-Depend on dpkg (>= 1.17.17) The second choice is a more generic fix that may benefit other packages too, assuming those Breaks are the "correct" thing to do. I'm inclined to do b) but at least the predependency needs a discussion on -devel too so I'll go there next. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
