Re: Bug#786763: redmine: error messages during update of ruby-rails packages

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: reassign -1 redmine

On 2015-05-29 12:49, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 dpkg
> 

Hi Antonio,

> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 02:07:37PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>> Antonio Terceiro wrote on 05/25/2015 13:48:
>> <snip>
>>
>>> I'm sorry but I cannot see what is the problem; did you forget to
>>> include the actual error messages?
>>>
>> Hi Antonio,
>>
>> it's further down:
>>
>> [...]
> 
> That looks like a problem in dpkg. Did you try upgrading dpkg before
> upgrading the rest of the system? Or trying again after the above
> happened?
> 

The output from dpkg suggests redmine has an /awaiting/ trigger cycle.
In particular, on itself?  Indeed, redmine has the following triggers:

"""
interest /usr/share/redmine/plugins
interest /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
"""
(From
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-ruby-extras/redmine.git/tree/debian/redmine.triggers)


If possible, please consider switching these to noawait variants (though
note that noawait may defer the trigger a bit longer).  Alternatively,
if noawait triggers do not provide enough guarantees, you may have to
replace the interest triggers all together.  Please note that:

  * No package /depending/ on redmine can use an "await" trigger.
    If they do, it will lead to a trigger cycle.

Please see man 5 deb-triggers for more information.

Thanks,
~Niels