Bug#518975: myspell-en-us: Fails to purge.

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 07:06:29PM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 06:33:22PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:37:52PM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote:
> > > Looking at the logs, seems that failure is pretty random. As a matter of fact
> > > there was no such failure in 0.7.6-7. Furthermore, compiz 0.7.6-7 seems to not
> > > use at all myspell-en-us, 
> > > 
> > > 0.7.6-7+b1 [amd64 i386] also fail, but for the other arches myspell-en-us is
> > > not even used at all.
> > > 
> > > For 0.7.6-8 [ia64] myspell-en-us is again used and failure happens, but not
> > > for any other arch. Again for all other arches there is no mention of
> > > myspell-en-us.
> > > 
> > > Seems we have a serious problem with the autobuilders, not with myspell-en-us.
> > > apt seems to sometimes behave badly and load unrelated packages
> > > (myspell-en-us is not in Build-depends and looking at it I cannot imagine
> > > which package has pulled it)
> > 
> > It gets installed when you don't have Install-Recommends turned
> > off.
> 
> Has that changed in autobuilders since September? Is also strange that
> 0.7.6-7+b1 [i386] shown this problem last Sunday, but not today. 

That I have no idea.  Maybe they stopped installing recommends.

> Anyway, why is dictionaries-common removed before myspell-en-us, and without
> complaining? myspell-en-us depends on dictionaries-common, so that should not
> happen.

Policy is pretty clear on this.  You can not rely on Depends being
present during the purge phase.


Kurt