On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 04:05:49PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Niko Tyni wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 04:33:59AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > >> Should libc6 add a Breaks for this (to help with the upgrade path > >> from squeeze)? > > > > Eventually yes, but I've been delaying that request because we don't > > have the full list of broken versions on all architectures yet. > > I asked because it could have helped avoid breakage in the meantime.
Yes, I probably should have given this a higher priority. > As long as perl-base only pre-depends on libc6 from squeeze, not > wheezy, it should be fine. Thanks for the analysis. It looks like the low version constraint of the libc pre-dependency helps here. > unpack new perl-base > unpack multiarchified libc > configure multiarchified libc > configure new perl-base I wonder if there's a danger of an unrelated future change (in either perl or eglibc) bumping the version constraint and causing problems. However, I don't think we should worry about that overmuch at this point. > To make the versions consistent between architectures, it should be > enough to make a sourceful upload that Build-Depends on > multiarch-support. Thanks for this idea! It isn't really obvious from the eglibc changelog, but browsing the SVN repository confirms that the multiarch-support package was added in 2.13-5 which seems to be enough on !sparc. http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-glibc?view=revision&revision=4674 I see this isn't quite the intended use of the multiarch-support package. Would it really work? There's no guarantee that multiarch-support pulls in a recent enough libc6, so we'd just be relying on the general availability of multiarch-support itself. I think arch:all packages may well be available before the corresponding arch:any packages get built and uploaded. Of course, all this is probably theoretical at this point on release architectures (unlike a week ago when the binNMUs were built) but I see armhf is still lagging behind. Not sure if we need to add something explicit about sparc. Probably not. -- 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
