severity 600571 important thanks On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 09:35:28AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:33:57AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Package: perl > > Version: 5.10.1-15 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: Breaks installation > > > > While dist-upgrading my system today, the perl package failed to > > unpack/configure > > (transcript below) and hung for over an hour until I killed the dpkg > > process. After > > running "dpkg --configure -a" and "apt-get -f install" the package then > > continued to > > configure correctly. It looks like it was somehow stuck between unpacking > > and > > configuring. There was no response in the terminal to any keys (I tried > > hitting enter, > > but there was no response to the input, so maybe apt-get was doing > > something odd with > > termios if this wasn't a deliberate action by the perl maintainer scripts).
> This is very weird. No, the maintainer scripts of the perl package > certainly don't mess with ptys in any way and actually do nothing at > the unpack stage of an upgrade. There are no conffiles and no debconf > usage either. > The package seems to work for other people (10 days in unstable without > other reports) and the changes in 5.10.1-15 seem unlikely to cause > something like this. > > My best guess is that this is either a problem with your system or some > corner case in apt-get / dpkg interaction but this is all just handwaving. > > Tagging as unreproducible, let's wait a while for any other reports. The > package just migrated to squeeze so there should be plenty of people > upgrading in the next few days. Now that we've seen 5.10.1-16 migrate to squeeze too after ten days in unstable and no other reports of anything like this, I think it's clear this is not an issue with the perl package. I'm downgrading the severity so that RC bughunters can concentrate on other things. TBH, I don't see much point in keeping the bug open at all. Roger, please let me know if you're OK with closing this or if you want it reassigned somewhere else. Personally I doubt the dpkg or apt maintainers can do much about it either. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
