On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:26:33PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > There are three other essential packages in unstable which depend on > libc6 without using a Pre-Depends, namely base-passwd_3.2.1, > hostname_2.08 and ncurses-bin_5.2.20010318-2. Aha! More importantly, there's the non-essential, but required and depended upon by perl (not perl-base) package libdb2, which doesn't Pre-Depend: on libc6. I think what's happening is that: /usr/bin/perl (provided by perl-base.deb) is essential and must always work when perl.deb is installed, /usr/bin/perl only works if libdb.so.3 (provided by libdb2) works, which in turn only works with a new libc6. perl depends on libdb2 (not pre-depends), libdb2 depends on the new libc6 (not pre-depends). Hrm. Further, libc6 Depends on libdb2, but doesn't Pre-Depend on it. Not sure what the correct fix here is. Perhaps: libc6 Depends: libdb2 libdb2 Pre-Depends: libc6 perl Pre-Depends: libdb2 ? Are Depends/Pre-Depends loops allowed, or are they as bad as Pre-Depends loops? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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