Bug#109615: dpkg fails to configure dependent packages in the right order
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: important
Hello.
I don't know exactly what happens, but the problem seems to appear
frequently and nobody cares about it.
What happens? While doing a big dist-upgrade, dpkg stops on configuring
the packages. The package where it breaks depends on another one, which
has been selected to install but not configured before. What is the
reason? Normally, dpkg manages to configure the packages in the right
order, but not when invoked from apt. But what is the problem here? I
guess, apt feeds dpkg with small series of packages, and something is
going wrong on sorting them.
Note that this behaviour is not suitable for a stable distribution,
since Potato upgraders would wonder about such trouble, and applications
like tasksel break. Feel free to downgrade the severity to normal but
don't say later that this issue was never reported.
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux zombie 2.4.9 #2 Mon Aug 20 02:10:18 CEST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010810 The GNU stdc++ library
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