Bug#882129: libc6: please add "Conflicts: openrc (<< 0.27-2~)" -- system mostly unbootable
Package: libc6
Version: 2.25-1
Severity: important
Hi!
After upgrading libc6 to 2.25-1, most components of openrc segfault on
startup. This is pretty uncool for something that handles init scripts: it
renders the system effectively unbootable (strictly speaking, it boots, init
does its thing, but I for one would prefer hostname set, non-root
filesystems mounted, ssh running -- that sort of things).
Obviously, this is a severity:critical bug in openrc, and it's up to one of
its uploaders to fix it. Which we just did in 0.27-2.
But, that's not enough, as if libc6 is upgraded first (or only, on partial
upgrades), the user will end-up with openrc 0.27-1 but new libc. Thus,
there's a need to prevent such situation. Usually, we add Breaks: but
that's not enough:
• openrc is deconfigured
• libc6 is upgraded
• a daemon tries to stop or restart -- boom!
Thus, the obvious approach is to add "Conflicts: openrc (<< 0.27-2~)" to
libc6 and its arch variants (libc{6.1,0.1,0.3}). I'm not sure that's the
best solution: apt may prefer to instead remove openrc, and some other
upgrade non-nicety is likely to pop up in the future.
Would you have a better idea? If not, please add this Conflicts: stanza.
Meow!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0+ (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
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