reopen #976704 Hello Tobias, On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 01:30:05PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the po4a package: > > #976704: po4a: Missing dependency on libpod-parser-perl > > It has been closed by "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <to...@debian.org>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" > <to...@debian.org> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 976704: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976704 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems
> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:27:00 +0100
> From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <to...@debian.org>
> To: Helge Kreutzmann <deb...@helgefjell.de>, 976704-d...@bugs.debian.org,
> Martin Quinson <martin.quin...@ens-rennes.fr>
> Subject: Re: Bug#976704: po4a: Missing dependency on libpod-parser-perl
>
> Version: 0.61-1
>
> Am 09.12.20 um 08:32 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann:
> > Hello Martin, On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 11:18:12PM +0100, Martin
> > Quinson wrote:
> >> it seems to me that this is an upstream bug that you will never
> >> encounter when using the Debian package (neither source nor
> >> binary). Do you agree?
> >
> > I'm using the Debian package, not the something from other sources.
> > My intend is to rebuild other packages or upstream packages, but not
> > installing them, as I'm only interested in up-to-date de.po files.
> >
> > The first time I hit this problem was when I tried to rebuild the
> > upstream sources of dpkg.
> >
> >> ----- Le 7 Déc 20, à 9:24, Helge Kreutzmann deb...@helgefjell.de a
> >> écrit :
> >
> > …
> >
> >>> After installing libpod-parser-perl, the build suceedes.
> >
> > …
> >
> > And once libpod-parser-perl from Debian is installed the build
> > suceeds. So to me it appears as if libpod-parser-perl is required to
> > operate po4a at least with packages like dpkg and po4a.
> >
> > Thus I think this is a Debian bug, not an upstream one (or a bug in
> > both, if libpod-parser-perl is not meant to be used, which I cannot
> > judge).
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Helge
>
> Hi Helge,
>
> you're right, libpod-parser-perl is required. But it seems to me that
> maybe something on your build system had been set up wrongly, because
> libpod-parser-perl is listed as "Depends" for the binary package po4a.
> Moreover, the package libpod-parser-perl is also listed as
> "Build-Depends-Indep" for the source package of po4a. So I would think
> that everything has been catered for.
>
> I don't know why apt would let you remove libpod-parser-perl. If I try
> this on my system, I get the correct notification that po4a would be
> removed as well:
>
> $ sudo LC_ALL=C apt remove libpod-parser-perl
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> [...] libpod-parser-perl po4a
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> I'm therefore closing this bug.
I reported this to the apt folks, and got the following answer:
<quote>
perl Provides libpod-parser-perl. Hence it's not even installed by
default if you install po4a (because perl was installed already).
</quote>
This is most likely what happend to me. So po4a needs to ensure that
the package "libpod-parser-perl" is really installed, not the perl
version. Or it needs to work with the perl version.
For (little) more details see #976980.
Greetings
Helge
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