On 3 September 2011 13:51, Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 02:07:36AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> retitle 639290 upgrade from squeeze to wheezy fails on i386 (pre-depends >> loop) >> thanks > > >> But before we start waffling on the implementation, I would like to have a >> reproducible test case - for one thing, I'd like to see if wheezy's apt does >> any better. But I can't reproduce the problem in a clean squeeze i386 >> chroot. Adam, can you provide a minimal package list that can be used to >> reproduce the error?
I could easily reproduce on two systems so it's something that actually happens. Reproducing it in mostly empty chroot may be another thing, though. > >> - revert libc's Breaks: on perl. The original bug report causing this to >> be added suggests that the only known breakage is that using old perl on >> a system with new libc6 to *build* software that embeds perl will fail. >> If that's the case, I think that's not a very strong reason to use a >> Breaks at all since the main functionality of perl remains intact, and >> only one specific use case is broken. > > This issue seem to be somewhat stalled ATM. As I'm the one who requested > the problematic libc Breaks entry, I feel it's my responsibility to get > it reverted. > > Steve: are you OK with reverting it now or are you still looking for a > reproducible test case for the apt bug? I guess changing the dependencies so that apt can cope it the only reasonable way to deal with this for Wheezy. There is libapt-pkg-perl and when you have packages depending on that upgrading apt separately from perl is not possible. I am not quite sure why the old libapt-pkg can't be kept around but I am quite sure I had to rebuild libapt-pkg-perl a few times to allow installing it together with my preferred apt and perl versions. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
