clone 549011 -1 retitle -1 safe-rm should not fail during a perl upgrade severity -1 grave thanks
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Francois Marier wrote: > On 2009-10-12 at 10:48:58, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > I'd be satisfied with that solution, given a clear warning on the "perl- > > dependent" solution (and a good advice on how to set the alias system-wide). > > Sounds good. I don't have time to do it right now, but I do like the idea. > > If you have any specific wording you can suggest around the perl dependency > or if you have instructions in mind for the system-wide alias, please feel > free to add them here. I might even get it done sooner if it requires less > thinking ;-) If you read other bug logs like 550825 you will see that the presence of /usr/bin/rm as a perl script depending on modules not part of perl-base ensures that this script will fail during any upgrade of perl (since at some point in the upgrade perl-base and perl-modules are not in sync). Given that rm is needed for dpkg and most maintenance scripts to work, rm should always work. So you should not create a conflicting rm version that does not work at some point during an upgrade. Making this symlink optional doesn't make it less broken. The only dependency that is not satisfied by perl-base seems to be "use English" so I suggest you get rid of that entirely in safe-rm. Please test safe-rm with only perl-base installed. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
