Re: Bug#774844: xfonts-traditional: fails to upgrade from 'wheezy': Can't locate File/Find.pm in @INC
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:37:19PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2015-01-18 18:48, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > a) - make xfonts-traditional 'postinst triggered' survive missing dependencies
> > - make perl-base+perl-modules+perl Break xfonts-traditional older than that
>
> What about this rather simple solution:
>
> Package: perl-modules
> Breaks: xfonts-traditional (<< 1.7~)
>
> The action to achieve is: before the new perl-modules is unpacked
> (which would break xfonts-traditional.postinst due to missing (or
> better: relocated) File/Find.pm, ensure xfonts-traditional is either
> upgraded first or deconfigured - this should be sufficient for any old
> dpkg not to do trigger processing any more (as long as it is not in a
> configured state).
Unfortunately that doesn't help with partial upgrades. Nothing prevents
upgrading and configuring xfonts-traditional first, and only then
upgrading the rest of the system.
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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