On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:24:23AM +0000, James Troup wrote: > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes: > > Yes, I'm getting a few strange reports like this. To be honest I don't > > yet know if it's a package bug or some sort of weirdness inflicted on > > the buildds due to kludge necessary to work around the fact that > > xlibs-dev is now an architecture-independent pseudopackage. > > Err, the "kludge" was simply making xlibs-dev from 4.2.1 available to > the buildds and hiding the arch:all 4.3.0 version. I can't conceive > how that would cause any problems - never mind something like this. > > I haven't looked at the log, but I suspect this is probably just more > fallout from the hanging postrm bug that's in -2[1]. [...] > [1] As I explained on IRC: sbuild installs new X library packages, > builds package, tries to remove them, postrm hangs due to missing > argument to grep, sbuild times out and kills the dpkg process, > dpkg gets confused and thinks the library package it was in the > process of removing is still "installed but with no files"... next > package that tries to use that library fails (often in bizarre > ways) because the library's not actually there. Thanks for the clarification. -- G. Branden Robinson | One doesn't have a sense of humor. Debian GNU/Linux | It has you. branden@debian.org | -- Larry Gelbart http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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