Your message dated Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:44:38 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#765320: debian-security-support: dpkg: cycle found
while processing triggers
has caused the Debian Bug report #765320,
regarding debian-security-support: dpkg: cycle found while processing triggers
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: debian-security-support
Version: 2014.09.07
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
debian-security-support causes trigger loops, breaking other packages'
upgrades. To reproduce, try this in a minimal chroot:
# apt-get install debian-security-support gettext man-db
[SNIP]
# apt-get install --reinstall gettext gettext-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1360 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 11727 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gettext-base_0.19.2-3_i386.deb ...
Unpacking gettext-base (0.19.2-3) over (0.19.2-3) ...
Preparing to unpack .../gettext_0.19.2-3_i386.deb ...
Unpacking gettext (0.19.2-3) over (0.19.2-3) ...
dpkg: cycle found while processing triggers:
chain of packages whose triggers are or may be responsible:
debian-security-support -> man-db
packages' pending triggers which are or may be unresolvable:
debian-security-support: /usr
man-db: /usr/share/man
dpkg: error processing package debian-security-support (--unpack):
triggers looping, abandoned
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-2) ...
Not building database; man-db/auto-update is not 'true'.
Errors were encountered while processing:
debian-security-support
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debian-security-support depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.53
ii gettext-base 0.19.2-3
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Jakub Wilk
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--- Begin Message ---
* Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org>, 2014-10-16, 11:11:
debian-security-support causes trigger loops, breaking other
packages' upgrades.
Ouch. Does the fix for #762031 help?
No, it didn't help, which smells like a bug in dpkg...
From dpkg_1.17.19 changelog:
* Fix trigger dependency checks and cycle detection.
Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.17.
Closes: #765434, #765668, #765734, #765781, #765789, #765952
And indeed, after upgrading dpkg the bug is no longer reproducible.
Closing! Sorry for the noise.
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Jakub Wilk
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