Bug#198479: general: package coming to sarge before their dependencies : breaks them.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:03:42AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> Le Mon 23/06/2003, Colin Watson disait
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:36:27AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> > > Several packages like html2ps or apt-file are broken in sarge because
> > > they were put from sid before their dependencies. The coming to sarge
> > > of a package should not be done if it makes it uninstallable.
> >
> > This is generally the rule. Sometimes bad things have to happen to a
> > couple of packages in order to benefit a large number of packages
> > elsewhere, though.
>
> For html2ps and apt-file, they have been broken in sarge for
> weeks...
I haven't looked at them in detail. But:
html2ps is broken due to perlmagick, which is still at a perl 5.6
version in testing. This was temporarily necessary because getting perl
5.8 was more important than waiting for all of perlmagick's
dependencies, which remain very messy and complicated; my notes say that
imagemagick needs the lcms dependency chain, which needs the gdbm
dependency chain, which needs the libsigc++ dependency chain, which
needs the libgc dependency chain. Only the last of those is close to
being ready for testing yet.
apt-file is broken due to libapt-pkg-perl, which is still at a perl 5.6
version in testing. Again, this was temporarily necessary because perl
5.8 was more important than waiting for all of libapt-pkg-perl's
dependencies. Right now, apt's release-critical bugs need to be fixed
before new versions of it and libapt-pkg-perl can move into testing.
> ANd I do not see the benefits of having broken packages.
New versions of perl and python and a number of other things were pushed
into testing a number of weeks back. This allowed substantial
improvements in many packages and unblocked a lot of development work,
but unfortunately temporarily made some other things uninstallable. This
will be resolved in time.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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