Bug#686346: closed by Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> (Bug#686346: fixed in apt 0.9.7.5)
On 2012-09-11 15:36:15 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> [ David Kalnischkies ]
> * handle packages without a mandatory architecture (debian-policy §5.3)
> by introducing a pseudo-architecture 'none' so that the small group of
> users with these packages can get right of them without introducing too
> much hassle for other users (Closes: #686346)
I'm not sure whether this is done correctly. For instance, I have
the following packages installed:
Package: docbook-mathml
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 100
Maintainer: Mark Johnson <mrj@debian.org>
Version: 1.0.0-2
Depends: xml-core (>= 0.05), sgml-base (>= 1.17), docbook-xml (>= 4.1.2-4), w3-dtd-mathml
Suggests: docbook-xsl
Description: Extension to DocBook XML for using MathML markup
[...]
(with a missing architecture and which depends on docbook-xml) and:
Package: docbook-xml
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 2024
Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group <debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 4.5-7.1
Provides: docbk-xml
Depends: sgml-data (>= 2.0.2), sgml-base (>= 1.26+nmu2)
Pre-Depends: xml-core (>= 0.12)
Suggests: docbook, docbook-dsssl, docbook-xsl, docbook-defguide
Conffiles:
[...]
Description: standard XML documentation system for software and systems
[...]
apt is up-to-date:
ay:~> apt-show-versions apt
apt/unstable uptodate 0.9.7.5
but...
ay:~> sudo apt-get remove --purge -s docbook-mathml docbook-xml
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'docbook-mathml' is not installed, so not removed. Did you mean 'docbook-mathml:none'?
The following packages will be REMOVED:
docbook-xml*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 566 not upgraded.
Purg docbook-xml [4.5-7.1]
so that docbook-mathml would depend on a package that has been
uninstalled. However if I do this, the system doesn't notice
this broken dependency, as if docbook-mathml were not installed
at all (so that I don't need an "apt-get -f install").
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