Re: Bug#701048: open-cobol: squeeze->wheezy upgrade fails: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'gcc'

[Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 07:27:35AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 21/02/13 at 05:11 +0000, Bart Martens wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:23:01PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > >    E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'gcc'. Please see man
> > >    5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
> > 
> > Suggestions on how to reproduce the problem ?
> 
> Have you tried installing open-cobol itself, and only this package?

That would break the dependencies.
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/open-cobol

> 
> in a squeeze chroot:
> apt-get install open-cobol
> sed -i s/squeeze/wheezy/ /etc/apt/sources.list
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade (open-cobol is not upgraded)
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> reproduces the problem.

I see that you mention "apt-get upgrade" before "apt-get dist-upgrade", so I
did that now in these steps :

pbuilder --login
apt-get install vim-tiny
apt-get install open-cobol (also installs libcob1 libcob1-dev)
vi /etc/apt/sources.list (to replace squeeze by wheezy)
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade (gcc open-cobol libcob1 libcob1-dev kept back)
apt-get dist-upgrade (gcc open-cobol libcob1 libcob1-dev upgraded)

Still no failure.

I verified that there is no /etc/apt/apt.conf and the files in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ don't set Immediate-Configure, so I guess the default
value for Immediate-Configure is used.

Other suggestions on how to reproduce the problem ?

Regards,

Bart Martens