Bug#172057: dummy RC bug

[Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes <gaute@verdsveven.com>]

Laurdag 7. desember 2002 21:40 skreiv Joey Hess:
> Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > Really?
> >
> > We once got a report that this seems to be a problem:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165036
>
> That bug report didn't provide a full log of the failure, but as far as
> I can tell what probably happened is that openoffice.org failed to
> configure for some reason (not shown), and then as the log shows dpkg
> didn't set up openoffice.org-l10n-en.

There's a (Norwegian) bug report at Skulelinux:

<URL: http://bugs.skulelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=220 >

... with this installation log, from which the excerpt in bug#165036 was 
retrieved:

<URL: http://bugs.skulelinux.no/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=29 >

I don't see any sign of openoffice.org failing to configure. dpkg just tries 
to configure openoffice.org-l10n-en first, and fails.The order of 
configuration seems random. Another installation log, using a slightly 
different set of packages, chooses openoffice.org first and succeeds:

<URL: http://bugs.skulelinux.no/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26 >

I'd very much like to know why openoffice.org-l10n-en fails to configure in 
the first scenario. Does dpkg actually try to configure the package, or does 
it just look at the dependencies and decides it's impossible?

Regards,
 Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes