Bug#22550: why has this bug (22550) been merged with 172339, 190558?
retitle 22550 [dpkgpm] Packages are left in an unconfigured state for a long time when installing many packages
retitle 172339 [dpkgpm] Packages with circular dependencies may fail due to being configured in different dpkg invocations when installing many packages
retitle 190558 [dpkgpm] Packages with circular dependencies may fail due to being configured in different dpkg invocations when installing many packages
unmerge 22550
severity 22550 wishlist
merge 22550 143537
thanks
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 02:48:09PM +0100, pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote:
> But I think 22550 is about something different. 172339+190558 are about
> apt wrongly chopping things into chunks to feed to dpkg, causing genuine
> problems when dependency cycles are involved. 22550 is about apt feeding
> too many things to dpkg at once, so dpkg unpacks them all at once and
> they're in a nonfunctional state for a long time before it gets round to
> configuring them. This isn't a bug as such, it's just a wishlist item that
> you should be able to get apt to split things up (paying attention to
> cycles, of course) so as to reduce downtime for services.
They are both caused by the same behaviour in apt, but yes, they do seem to
be distinct issues. apt has many duplicate bugs and it is easy to confuse
similar ones, especially when they do not have sufficiently descriptive
titles.
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- mdz
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