On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:06:19PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 22:56:49 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:28:01PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 22:21:29 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > > > > That said, I can no longer really contribute to this bug as I'm not able > > > > to reproduce. Anyone experiencing this problem should probably make a > > > > copy of /var/lib/dpkg/status so we/David can have a look. > > > > > > > Yeah, I made one IIRC, just don't have it right now. I'm kind of afraid > > > we won't manage to fix all the possible cases where this happens, > > > though, and will need to explain in the release notes how to work around > > > it if people still face this error message. If anyone has ideas on how > > > to write that, I'd be happy to see your suggestions :) > > > > You mean something like: > > If apt-get tells you that it "could not perform immediate configuration" > > on something, re-run it with -o APT::Immediate-Configure=0 > > ? > > > What's the downside of that configuration option? Should we recommend > to always do that for squeeze to wheezy upgrades? The text in > apt.conf(5) isn't overly encouraging. For essential packages, there should not be much difference, they're required to work unconfigured. For the other packages affected by this, it depends on how much they affect your ability to fix the system if they are not configured. If I am not mistaken, running dpkg --configure -a should be able to configure the affected packages in such a situation; and then you can continue fixing things. Partial upgrades might be an alternative; I was not successful in many cases however, as APT's solver made the wrong decisions causing many partial upgrade attempts to fail for me. I don't know whether this applies to most systems, though, or if it is somehow caused by my local meta-packages. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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