Re: frozen libc6 wierdness
Woah. What a mess. :)
Thanks Jason!
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 11:17:59PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Package: libgtk1.2
> Version: 1.2.6-1
> Severity: important
>
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Seth R Arnold wrote:
>
> > In any event, I rather like many of the packages apt suggested
> > uninstalling, so I am not sure upgrading is really the right thing to
> > do, but releasing potato in a state where the newest libc6 libraries
> > conflict with so many useful packages, it just seems wrong.
>
> It appears APT is unable to resolve the forced removal of gconv-modules
> and the substitution of locales. Regrettably, I don't think this is
> something APT is going to be able to do in the future at all, it is a
> highly complicated.. The dependency relations look something like this:
>
> /-> gconv-modules -\
> libgtk1.2 -> ?? ^ +-> (conflict) libc6
> | \-> locales -| (conflict) | (depend+conflict!)
> ----------------------------------------------+
>
> Lots of nice circles and the bizzar use of | causes the paradoxical
> depending and not-depending on libc6 simultaneously!
>
> I think the primary way to fix this problem is to fix up the depends line
> of libgtk1.2:
>
> Depends: gconv-modules | libc6 (<< 2.1), libc6, libc6 (>= 2.1), libglib1.2
> (>= 1.2.0), xlib6g (>= 3.3.4-1)
> Mentioning libc6 3 times is really, really lame and I think that the
> fact it is in the failing | group is the primary cause of this
> problem.
>
> Thus the identical depends line:
> Depends: gconv-modules, libc6 (> 2.1), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), xlib6g(>= 3.3.4-1)
>
> Should be used instead!
>
> Ideally, to really stamp this out libgtk1.2 would directly depend on
> locales (Joel??) for potato. However, I have a feeling just fixing that |
> group will make it go away!
>
> Any other packages that use the above rediculous construct should also be
> fixed as well!!
>
> This bug gets to be important for two primary reasons:
> 1) Old APTs freak out when they see this in a really strange and scary
> way
> 2) New APTs like to remove libgtk1.2 to solve the problem, thus nuking
> substantial amounts of gtk using packages in the process.
>
> dselect users (at least on top of APT) will not see this problem
> *so long as they correctly select locales when prompted*!
>
> Jason
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