Hi Niko, On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 02:51:51PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 02:07:36AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > But before we start waffling on the implementation, I would like to have a > > reproducible test case - for one thing, I'd like to see if wheezy's apt does > > any better. But I can't reproduce the problem in a clean squeeze i386 > > chroot. Adam, can you provide a minimal package list that can be used to > > reproduce the error? > > - revert libc's Breaks: on perl. The original bug report causing this to > > be added suggests that the only known breakage is that using old perl on > > a system with new libc6 to *build* software that embeds perl will fail. > > If that's the case, I think that's not a very strong reason to use a > > Breaks at all since the main functionality of perl remains intact, and > > only one specific use case is broken. > > This issue seem to be somewhat stalled ATM. As I'm the one who requested > the problematic libc Breaks entry, I feel it's my responsibility to get > it reverted. > > Steve: are you OK with reverting it now or are you still looking for a > reproducible test case for the apt bug? Once I tried with a clean i386 debootstrap, Adam's test case was sufficient. I have not yet tested to see whether wheezy's apt can handle this scenario; I still will, but Michal's comment seems pretty decisive: On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 06:08:26PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > I guess changing the dependencies so that apt can cope it the only > reasonable way to deal with this for Wheezy. > There is libapt-pkg-perl and when you have packages depending on that > upgrading apt separately from perl is not possible. That means telling users to just upgrade to the wheezy apt before dist-upgrading is insufficient. So I think that yes, we should revert the breaks. > (I still think we should have a Breaks entry somewhere, probably gcc, > but we have plenty of time to discuss and implement that afterwards.) gcc seems like a reasonable place to do this. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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