(Dropping Sven and Andreas but adding the release team; there's a question for you lower in the mail.)
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:19:18PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > It looks like a bug in apt to me. The perl/perl-modules circular dependency > has been around for ages and should be easy to break, but I suppose apt > is trying to configure them in separate dpkg runs or something like that. > > If it's actually reproducible this time (I haven't tried yet), that > hopefully helps in understanding the issue. Sven Joachim's analysis in > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767734#10 > sounds good, but it doesn't quite fit here as that particular apt bug > shouldn't be present in wheezy (or jessie, for that matter) at all. FWIW I wasn't able to reproduce it on Wednesday or Friday, which is a bit strange as Gregor said he could. Apt maintainers: there's plenty of debug output in the log Andreas supplied. Is that enough for you to understand the problem, or would you like something more? > Relaxing the circular dependency is a workaround that might be doable, > even though it would be 'incorrect'. There are modules in perl that > need others in perl-modules, and vice versa. However, I count only 21 > binary packages in sid [1] that depend on perl-modules but not perl. > As perl is transitively build essential (via dpkg-dev and libdpkg-perl), > build dependencies should not be a concern at all. There are a few packages that pull in perl indirectly through their other dependencies, which brings the count of binary packages that only depend on perl-modules down to 15: cli-common patcher polygen-data pristine-tar pure-ftpd-common rinse shorewall shorewall-core snort-common # not in jessie squid # not in jessie tvtime mono-apache-server2 mono-apache-server4 mono-fastcgi-server2 mono-fastcgi-server4 I haven't checked if these would actually be broken if the perl-modules -> perl dependency was relaxed. Even if they wouldn't break, I would very much prefer if they were fixed to depend on perl instead, to lower chances of users encountering systems with perl-modules but not perl. Release team: if we don't find another solution, would you be willing to allow changes in these packages replacing Depends: perl-modules with Depends: perl into jessie? (Unfortunately my Debian time will be quite scarce for the next week or so, so I won't be able to work much on this.) -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
