Bug#24690: apache-ssl package depends on self--can't install because dpkg blows up with assertion

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.0.17-1

Jens B. Jorgensen writes:
 > Package: apache-ssl
 > Version: 1.2.6+1.16-1
 > 
 > dpkg blows up trying to configure apache-ssl:
 > 
 > kopf:/home/jbj1# dpkg --configure apache-ssl
 > dpkg: ../../../dpkg/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry
 > <= 4' failed.
 > Aborted (core dumped)
 > 
 > My guess is because apache-ssl provides apache but also depends on
 > apache | apache-common:
 > 

You are right. The problem is, that apache not yet uses or supplies
apache-common, so apache-ssl has to depend on apache or apache-common,
as some people want to install both servers.

But I consider it a bug, that apt aborts and dumps core.

Christoph


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