Package: upgrade-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
Hi, when I upgraded one of my Etch machines to Lenny, the new Perl 5.10 could not be installed because it conflicted with libarchive-tar-perl (version 1.38-3~etch1) which I had installed. As a consequence, all sorts of package managing scripts (debsums etc.pp.) broke, and nothing moved. I was able to manuall delete the offending package using dpkg, and get things going again, but I don't know if that's within reach of the end user because, at that point, the system was mostly non-functional because about half of all my packages were not correctly installed. I pretty much adhered to the release notes about upgrading from Etch to Lenny, and used Lenny's aptitude to do most of the job. I also recorded the upgrade process using 'script'. Here's an excerpt from that recording: Unpacking replacement perl ... dpkg: error processing /srv/apt/archives/perl_5.10.0-19_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/ptardiff', which is also in package libarchive-tar-perl dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) After I figured out that simply overwriting the file using --force didn't seem to do the trick, I removed the package manually: # dpkg --purge --force-depends libarchive-tar-perl dpkg: libarchive-tar-perl: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: spamassassin depends on libarchive-tar-perl; however: Package libarchive-tar-perl is to be removed. Package perl-modules which provides libarchive-tar-perl is not configured yet. (Reading database ... 238308 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libarchive-tar-perl ... After that, things were back in working order, as far as Perl was concerned. Kind regards, --Toni++ -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
