On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 05:29:17PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 11:30:59 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > This package can get involved in a trigger cycle. The problem is that
> > > it installs interests on /usr/share/mediawiki with files there
> > > provided by mediawiki and mediawiki-classes, which are directly or
> > > transitively depended on byfusionforge-plugin-mediawiki itself.
> > 
> > Can you please explain how/why this can make trigger cycles?
> 
> Sure. The fusionforge-plugin-mediawiki package is interested in a path,
> that path is provided by say mediawiki, when installing mediawiki,
> that package gets placed in triggers-awaited state (which does not
> satisfy dependencies), and because to process the pending triggers in
> fusionforge-plugin-mediawiki all dependencies need to be satisfied
> dpkg cannot progress, and thus the trigger cycle. Hope that clarifies.

There's one point I'd like to clarify: how comes we never had any
issues with this?

E.g. I don't see any warning here:
http://buildbot.fusionforge.org/job/fusionforge-53-functests-deb/os=debian7/33/consoleFull

-- 
Sylvain


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