severity 190558 important retitle 190558 many packages may be unconfigured after apt-get reassign 190558 apt merge 190558 172339 thanks
Henning Glawe wrote: > Package: openoffice.org > Version: 1.0.2-2 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system hahaha... > When using FAI or a similar autoinstaller, many packages may be left > unconfigure because of circular dependencies between openoffice.org > packages. apt-get is called with a _long_ list of packages to install, Well, that isn't impossible to change. openoffice.org needs to Depend: on openoffice.org-bin since the binaries are there. And -bin needs to depend: on openoffice.org because openoffice.org has base files. Both in one packages would have enourmous size and waste space... > which are partly fet unconfigured if one of them fails to configure. Jup.. known Problem. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165036&archive=yes > besides such circular dependencies violate debian policy: > Depends: blah > in blubb means package blah has to be configured before configuration > of blubb which is quite impossible if blah depends on blubb, though work > sometimes; in these cases, dpkgs behaviour get chaotic: sometimes it > works, sometimes not... Hahaaa, it does not. dpkg is supposed to do it right. apt is doing the wrong thing. Here are _dozen_ of packages with circular deps in the archive. We haad a discussion with Joey Hess about that (of which I unfortunately can't find the mails neither in the listarchives or in my own inbox-Archives; but the discussion was there... ) See the bug above and Debian Bug report logs - #172339 apt feeds packages with circular deps to dpkg problematically Lowering severity, reassigning to apt, merging. If you think this is critical/grave/serious , make it RC against apt... Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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