reassign 743729 ruby retitle 743729 ruby: badly handles transition away from alternatives, breaks dependant packages found 743729 ruby/1:2.0.0.1 thanks
The problem is not as simple as I originally thought (trused updatedb locate cache too much): strace reveals the ruby version for which debian_version is looking for is 1.8, and current ruby-debian only ships modules for 1.9.1 and 2.0.0. # ls -l /usr/bin/ruby lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 5 18:15 /usr/bin/ruby -> /etc/alternatives/ruby # update-alternatives --config ruby There is only one alternative in link group ruby (providing /usr/bin/ruby): /usr/bin/ruby1.8 Nothing to configure. I guess the problem comes from stopping using alternatives, without properly declares a "Conflicts" with obsolete ruby versions ? Well, #740733 seems to show that this was done in the past, and this issue is already discussed in its followup... As for unbreaking the impacted machines: * purging ruby1.8 leaves the system without /usr/bin/ruby or any of the symlinks previously managed as alternatives * although those symlinks are still listed as part of the ruby package, no mechanism seems to prevent this deadly interference with alternatives * creating a ruby -> ruby2.0 manually allows to easily require reinstallation of the "ruby" package Isn't the real problem that dpkg allowed unpacking of conflicting symlinks in the first place ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
