On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:37:19PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2015-01-18 18:48, Niko Tyni wrote: > > a) - make xfonts-traditional 'postinst triggered' survive missing > > dependencies > > - make perl-base+perl-modules+perl Break xfonts-traditional older than > > that > > What about this rather simple solution: > > Package: perl-modules > Breaks: xfonts-traditional (<< 1.7~) > > The action to achieve is: before the new perl-modules is unpacked > (which would break xfonts-traditional.postinst due to missing (or > better: relocated) File/Find.pm, ensure xfonts-traditional is either > upgraded first or deconfigured - this should be sufficient for any old > dpkg not to do trigger processing any more (as long as it is not in a > configured state).
Unfortunately that doesn't help with partial upgrades. Nothing prevents upgrading and configuring xfonts-traditional first, and only then upgrading the rest of the system. -- 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
