Re: glib inconsistencies in testing
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:41:34PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> since a couple of days ago, I keep getting this message on a lenny
> system during the configure phase of (seemingly) arbitrary packages:
> Setting up samba-common (2:3.0.31-1) ...
> *** This build of Glib was compiled with glib 2.16.4, but is currently
> running with 2.16.3, which is too old. We'll continue, but expect
> problems!
If you're seeing this from samba-common, the culprit will have to be
debconf (-> libglib-perl).
> It seems like some package which is frequently used in postinsts
> declares insufficiently strict dependencies on libglib. Before I start
> playing around with postinst scripts, is this issue known and reported?
Actually, the bug is that libglib-perl is second-guessing glib's package
dependencies and spitting out warnings that it shouldn't.
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