Bug#221215: Bug#239061: Segfault when setting up glibc-doc
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:03:25AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> I didn't write important information previously that I tried to
> reappear this bug on my "chroot woody" environment, but it was
> failed.
> I tried to upgrade this chroot woody from woody to sarge with
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" after installing woody's glibc-doc. This bug
> was not appeared.
> At Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:18:23 +0200,
> Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>>> (2) Moreover, various package which use install-info does not handle
>>> this problem. I don't like to increase depends or conflicts
>>> entries for this kind of bug.
>> If the other packages don't trigger the bug, they don't need to depend
>> on a recent enough version of dpkg. And if they do trigger the bug,
>> because they do it wrong is not a reason to do it wrong, too ;)
> Did you confirm this bug was affected to other packages?
No, I didn't,
>>> (3) This problem is occured when your dpkg is old (woody) and you
>>> want to install sarge's glibc-doc. I wonder we need to support
>>> such situation.
>> I think we should. People mixing stable and testing/unstable, or more
>> simply doing stage-wise upgrades is relatively common. We should give
>> them the hint that dpkg should be upgraded first.
> Did you confirm this bug?
I encountered it with glibc-doc, upgraded dpkg to fix it and continued
my upgrade. So, I didn't see if it hits other packages.
> At least the current upgrade does not induce this problem, I think
> we don't need depends or conflicts.
If the woody -> sarge transition is OK, then the need for it is
greatly reduced.
--
Lionel
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