found 648954 5.14.2-6 tag 648954 patch thanks Hello Niko, Dominic,
we still got quite a lot of upgrade failures with -6 (https://launchpad.net/bugs/902553). -6 adds a Conflicts: doc-base (<< 0.10.3) to perl-base. This correctly prevents unpacking of perl-base 5.14 and breaking the doc-base trigger. However, in above LP bug we see Preparing to replace libuuid-perl 0.02-4build1 (using .../libuuid-perl_0.02-4build2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libuuid-perl ... Preparing to replace update-inetd 4.38+nmu1 (using .../update-inetd_4.41_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement update-inetd ... Preparing to replace perl-modules 5.12.4-4 (using .../perl-modules_5.14.2-6_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl-modules ... Preparing to replace perl 5.12.4-4 (using .../perl_5.14.2-6_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl ... Selecting previously deselected package libperl5.14. Unpacking libperl5.14 (from .../libperl5.14_5.14.2-6_i386.deb) ... [...] Unpacking replacement libpurple0 ... [...] Processing triggers for doc-base ... /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/UUID/UUID.so: undefined symbol: Perl_xs_apiversion_bootcheck dpkg: error processing doc-base (--unpack): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 At this point neither doc-base nor perl-base was unpacked (which is what -5 and -6 fixed). Full logs are in the LP bug and its duplicates, but above is the gist of it. So we need to Conflicts: harder. Patch attached. Thanks for considering, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
diff -Nru perl-5.14.2/debian/changelog perl-5.14.2/debian/changelog
--- perl-5.14.2/debian/changelog 2011-11-28 21:05:37.000000000 +0100
+++ perl-5.14.2/debian/changelog 2011-12-16 12:31:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+perl (5.14.2-6ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low
+
+ * debian/control: Add doc-base conflict also to perl, perl-modules, and
+ libperl5.14. Otherwise they can get unpacked before upgrading perl-base
+ and doc-base and thus still cause symbol lookup errors in the doc-base
+ trigger. (Closes: #648954, LP: #902553)
+
+ -- Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:25:31 +0100
+
perl (5.14.2-6) unstable; urgency=low
[ Niko Tyni ]
diff -Nru perl-5.14.2/debian/control perl-5.14.2/debian/control
--- perl-5.14.2/debian/control 2011-11-28 21:05:37.000000000 +0100
+++ perl-5.14.2/debian/control 2011-12-16 12:31:05.000000000 +0100
@@ -219,6 +220,7 @@
libfile-path-perl,
libshell-perl,
libperl4-corelibs-perl
+Conflicts: doc-base (<< 0.10.3)
Description: Core Perl modules
Architecture independent Perl modules. These modules are part of Perl and
required if the `perl' package is installed.
@@ -247,6 +249,7 @@
Priority: optional
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, perl-base (= ${binary:Version})
+Conflicts: doc-base (<< 0.10.3)
Replaces: perl-base (<= 5.8.7-4)
Description: shared Perl library
This package is required by programs which embed a Perl interpreter to
@@ -268,7 +271,7 @@
Priority: standard
Architecture: any
Depends: perl-base (= ${binary:Version}), perl-modules (>= ${source:Version}),
${shlibs:Depends}
-Conflicts: libjson-pp-perl (<< 2.27200-2)
+Conflicts: libjson-pp-perl (<< 2.27200-2), doc-base (<< 0.10.3)
Breaks: perl-doc (<< ${Upstream-Version}-1),
libdigest-md5-perl (<< 2.51),
libmime-base64-perl (<< 3.13),
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