Bug#645713: fails to upgrade a default GNOME desktop installation from squeeze → sid
(breaking my promise, but as it is marked as a release-blocker now)
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 19:59:58 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Fwiw, I can no longer reproduce this myself.
>> I've done some recent test dist-upgrades from a default squeeze GNOME
>> installation to wheezy, which worked fine.
>>
>> From my POV, this bug can be closed.
>>
> From mine it can't, because I've upgraded a machine last week and had
> a similar failure (except with some java stuff instead of gstreamer).
Pictures^Wdpkg-status files or it didn't happen, as I said multiple times now.
The problem is that there is no "this bug" as this message is kinda catch-all,
so its extremely likely that different bugs in APT (and in dependency chains)
result in the very same message. Even more so if the message is completely
different (and yes, a different package makes it completely different).
There is no workaround beside the config option the message mentions
and there is also no such thing as a fix we could backport.
I also want to mention that there wasn't a lot of change in this code between
lenny and squeeze - beside some cornercases, debug enhancements and
*drum roll* changing the string of the message to the current form from
"Internal error, could not immediate configure %s".
So I wonder a bit what changed in how we write down dependencies after
lenny vs. after squeeze as this wasn't such a popular error condition before …
(I especially wonder how all these packages manage to become pseudo-essential)
I am already scared what will creep up for jessie, now that we had a lot of
code changes in that area in apt/wheezy. It will be so much fun … not.
So it would be interesting to know about which versions we are talking here.
The original bugreport e.g. is against an early post-squeeze APT version,
so are other instances now against apt/squeeze or against apt/wheezy or
some version in-between?
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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