Your message dated Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:07:36 +0300
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and subject line Re: Bug#531556: upgrade problem with the proposed
libarchive-tar-perl Etch update
has caused the Debian Bug report #531556,
regarding perl needs updated Replaces on libarchive-tar-perl
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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
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:18:23PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Niko Tyni wrote:
> > As we can only update the Lenny Conflicts entry for 5.0.3, that leaves
> > broken upgrades from Etch r9 to Lenny 5.0.{0,1,2}. Is this really
> > acceptable?
> >
> > Is it possible to remove 1.38-3~etch1 from oldstable-proposed-updates?
>
> Yes, that's possible via a bugreport against ftp.debian.org. It would
> not be possible to upload a lower version though.
Hi,
libarchive-tar-perl / 1.38-3~etch1 has been removed from oldstable-p-u
(see #537601), so I believe this issue is now resolved.
Closing #531556 with this message. Toni, thanks again.
Cheers,
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Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
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