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Bug#599616: marked as done (linux-tools-2.6.36: ..dependency logic bug, should depend on either 1 of sid or experimental binutils, not on both 2.)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #599616,
regarding linux-tools-2.6.36: ..dependency logic bug, should depend on either 1 of sid or experimental binutils, not on both 2.
to be marked as done.

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Package: linux-tools-2.6.36
Severity: normal


...dependency logic bug; experimental package linux-tools-$(experimental-kernel-version)
should depend on either 1 of sid binutils, or on experimental binutils, not on both 2.

...first 3 "solutions" offered:
...a45:~# unset http_proxy &&unset HTTP_PROXY &&aptitude -t experimental install linux-tools-2.6.36
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-tools-2.6.36{b} 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
Need to get 374 kB of archives. After unpacking 967 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  linux-tools-2.6.36: Depends: binutils (< 2.20.2) but 2.20.51.20100925-1 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     linux-tools-2.6.36 [Not Installed]                 



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.
a45:~# unset http_proxy &&unset HTTP_PROXY &&aptitude -t experimental install linux-tools-2.6.36
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-tools-2.6.36{b} 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
Need to get 374 kB of archives. After unpacking 967 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  linux-tools-2.6.36: Depends: binutils (< 2.20.2) but 2.20.51.20100925-1 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     linux-tools-2.6.36 [Not Installed]                 



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Downgrade the following packages:                                                    
1)     binutils [2.20.51.20100925-1 (experimental, now) -> 2.20.1-15 (unstable)]          
2)     binutils-dev [2.20.51.20100925-1 (experimental, now) -> 2.20.1-15 (unstable)]      
3)     binutils-multiarch [2.20.51.20100925-1 (experimental, now) -> 2.20.1-15 (unstable)]



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:                                                       
1)     binutils-dev                                                                       
2)     kernel-patch-kdb                                                                   

     Downgrade the following packages:                                                    
3)     binutils [2.20.51.20100925-1 (experimental, now) -> 2.20.1-15 (unstable)]          
4)     binutils-multiarch [2.20.51.20100925-1 (experimental, now) -> 2.20.1-15 (unstable)]



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.
a45:~# 

....etc.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-rc6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.36 depends on:
ii  binutils              2.20.51.20100925-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  libc6                 2.11.2-6           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libelf1               0.148-1            library to read and write ELF file

Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.36 recommends:
ii  linux-base   2.6.36~rc6-1~experimental.1 Linux image base package

Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.36 suggests:
ii  linux-doc-2. 2.6.36~rc6-1~experimental.1 Linux kernel specific documentatio

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On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 00:28 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:39:40 +0100, Ben wrote in message 
> <[🔎] 1286645980.2955.158.camel@localhost>:
> 
> > On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 18:42 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > Package: linux-tools-2.6.36
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ...dependency logic bug; experimental package
> > > linux-tools-$(experimental-kernel-version) should depend on either
> > > 1 of sid binutils, or on experimental binutils, not on both 2.
> > 
> > I don't understand.  The dependency is satisfied by sid's binutils:
> 
> .._required_, yes, and this required dependency in your experimental
> linux-tools-2.6.36 breaks my satisfaction when we wanna experiment 
> with experimental binutils, compilers etc on experimental kernel etc
> builds to help find real bugs. ;o)
> 
> ..my suggestion is satisfy the dependency with "one of Sid's or
> Experimental's" binutils, or even "one or 2 or 3 or more", and 
> not the current "Sid Only Basta!!!".
[...]

No can do, this is a library dependency (on libbfd) and the library's
ABI has changed.  You may wish to file a wishlist bug on binutils to put
libbfd in a separate package.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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