Bug#686346: closed by Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> (Bug#686346: fixed in apt 0.9.7.5)
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 05:17:55PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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").
I propose we just abort with an error message if the user has
a package without an architecture and force the user to remove
that package, instead of fixing this. That's probably much
easier and should only have little impact.
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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