Package: release.debian.org
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu
Tags: buster
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-s390@lists.debian.org
debootstrap fails to install Debian buster on s390x because of a
multi-arch "perl:any" dependency it fails to parse (bug #960265). This
update to s390-tools hardcodes the dependency on "perl" without that,
which should make the installation possible again. I already validated
that this fixed the issue on unstable and I could successfully install
it using debian-installer.
The fix is this one-liner. Debdiff attached. This should be fixed in the
package rather than debootstrap for now as debootstrap fixes are harder
to distribute.
> diff -Nru s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/control s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/control
> --- s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/control 2018-02-04 19:29:22.000000000 +0100
> +++ s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/control 2020-08-16 16:35:52.000000000 +0200
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
>
> Package: s390-tools
> Architecture: s390x
> -Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, gawk
> +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, perl, gawk
> Recommends: sg3-utils
> Description: Set of fundamental utilities for Linux on S/390
> The package contains:
My assumption is that this is not fixable through -updates but requires
a point release to be properly fixed.
Kind regards and thanks
Philipp Kern
diff -Nru s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/changelog s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/changelog
--- s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/changelog 2018-02-04 19:29:22.000000000 +0100
+++ s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/changelog 2020-08-17 10:04:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+s390-tools (2.3.0-2~deb10u1) buster; urgency=medium
+
+ * Upload debootstrap fix to Debian stable.
+
+ -- Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:04:45 +0200
+
+s390-tools (2.3.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Hardcode perl dependency instead of using ${perl:Depends}.
+ The latter introduces a multi-arch dependency (perl:any) that the
+ base installation environment cannot cope with.
+
+ -- Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 2020 10:36:02 -0400
+
s390-tools (2.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release.
diff -Nru s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/control s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/control
--- s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/control 2018-02-04 19:29:22.000000000 +0100
+++ s390-tools-2.3.0/debian/control 2020-08-16 16:35:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
Package: s390-tools
Architecture: s390x
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, gawk
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, perl, gawk
Recommends: sg3-utils
Description: Set of fundamental utilities for Linux on S/390
The package contains:
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