Re: Bug#898627: man-db: dependency loop

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Control: reassign -1 dpkg

[For background, the dpkg output from earlier messages in this bug was:

>     # apt-get -f install
>     dpkg: Cycle in triggers found:
>      Chain of packages, which triggers might be the culprit:
>       man-db -> man-db
>      required triggers of packages that can't be resolved:
>       man-db: /usr/share/man
>       libc-bin: ldconfig
>     dpkg: Error while configureing package man-db (--configure):
>      Triggers build a loop, aborted
]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:35:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Colin Watson writes ("Re: Bug#898627: man-db: dependency loop"):
> > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:03:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Does the man-db or libc-bin postinst explicitly trigger
> > > /usr/share/man ?
> > 
> > Not as far as I can see.  That would have to be a dpkg-trigger(1) call,
> > right?
> 
> Yes.  (Directly or indirectly, of course.)

I think this can only have been a dpkg bug, since to my knowledge
there's no such explicit triggering going on here, so I'm reassigning
it.  Sorry to have to reassign an old bug that may be hard to reproduce
at this point ...

Thanks,

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]