Re: libdir transition.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:48:21PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
>
> > Hello everyone ...
>
> Hello,
>
> > I just want a quick tour of opinions on what to do with the libdir
> > transition.
> >
> > I have package ready (well almost ready, need to recheck them) but there
> > is a bug in dpkg which hinders our upgrade plan, which i filled a bug
> > for, but for which i got no response.
> >
> > The problem will hit people upgrading from ocaml providing ocaml-3.06 to
> > ocam lproviding ocaml-3.06-1, since dpkg will not check that the package
> > it is upgrading will no more provide the virtual package that is needed
> > in the new package.
> >
> > I don't really know, but maybe apt will do the check for us. Will be
> > testing this.
> >
> > Anyway, in this case, do we go ahead with the translation, or not ? ANd
> > if yes, which would be the more appropriate time for it ?
>
> Dpkg is too critical not to consider such a bug.
> I do personaly sometimes install a list of packages manualy through
> dpkg, without APT. And I guess I may not be the only.
Yes, but the problem will only really appear in the transition phase.
> It would be wise to put the libdir transition on hold, until dpkg
> gets fixed. (note the Wichert seems to have orphaned a lot of
> packages recently, and dpkg is stalled).
The second problem is that i don't believe dpkg will be fixed unless we
fix it ourselves. I don't even got a reply from the bug report i
submitted. Maybe i should augment its severity or something, but i think
this is in the same league as the virtual versioned dependencies, which
has had bug reports since month (years ?) and was not fixed.
An idea for solving this would be to go ahead, and reply to each bug
report that this is a dpkg bug and reassign the bug to dpkg. It would
not be nice though.
Like said, or we wait forever, or we fix dpkg, or we reimplement dpkg in
ocaml :)))
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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