On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 22:19 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Package: linux-base > Version: 2.6.32-17 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > in the linux-image packages there is now a dependency chain from > linux-image-2.6... -> linux-base -> libapt-pkg-perl -> > libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8. Which is the virtual package provided by apt > to signal the ABI of its library and binary caches. In effect the > kernels are locked to a specific ABI version of apt. The problem is > that the ABI changes from time to time and every time it does an > update of apt will now remove the kernel for the duration of the > transition. For an example try installing apt from experimental. > > Well, that is life you might say. That is what is called a library > transition. > > But here comes the insane part. The 1637 line long perl postinst > script of linux-base only depends on apt because of this code at the > end: [...] What's really insane is that we don't have a nice and stable library to do this and instead I have to fork every time I want to compare two strings. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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