On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:55:23AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > The Depends on e2fsprogs-udeb are "e2fslibs (>= 1.41.0), libblkid1 (>=
> > 1.37), libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libcomerr2 (>= 1.37), libuuid1 (>= 1.37)"
>
> The e2fsprogs-udeb used to depend on just libblkid1-udeb and libc6, all
> the other dependencies are completely new. Looks like the dependencies
> have randomly changed because of a serious packaging error with the most
> recent upload(s) of the latest upstream of e2fsprogs.
This was caused by the introduction of the use dpkg-gensymbols in
1.41.1-2, I suspect. I'll fix the control file to manually specify
the dependencies for the udeb packages.
> Reassigning to that package.
>
> Ted: please fix with highest urgency as this completely breaks all daily
> builds of the Debian Installer which are essential for pre-release
> testing. TIA.
I will, although I'm travelling at the moment so I probably won't be
able to upload new packages until tomorrow night or Friday morning.
I'll get to it as soon as I can.
Stupid question, though --- I thought D-I would be doing builds
against testing, not unstable? As much as I would like to get the
quite large number of bug fixes that are in the 1.41.1 maintenance
release into Lenny, I thought the Lenny Freeze ship had sailed long
ago (to horribly Vita-Mix a metaphor). Lenny currently has e2fsprogs
1.41.0-3, which would not have this problem.
I'm a bit surprised that Debian Installer would be doing daily builds
against what is currently in unstable.
- Ted
P.S. Here are some of the bug fixes which are in 1.41.1 that are not
in 1.41.0 that might be especially relevant:
* Fix "dumpe2fs -i" and "debugfs -i". (Closes: #495830)
* Fix blkid cache validation and some possible blkid crashes
(Closes: #493216)
* Fix filefrag's ideal extent calculation (Closes: #458306)
* Fix resize2fs incorrectly managing directory in-use counts when
shrinking filesystems and directory inodes need to be moved.
(and a whole bunch of ext4-related fixes, which are important to
people trying out ext4, but not that relevant to most Debian stable
users.)
But in any case, I had not planned to try to ask for a Freeze
exception, precisely because I didn't want to cause problems for some
of its downstream dependencies, such as the d-i. My thought was to
wait until a future update of Lenny, and backport just the most
critical non-ext4 related bugs at that time --- especially if Lenny is
releasing in September. That's why I was a bit surprised that the d-i
was depending on the e2fsprogs in unstable. If I had known about
that, maybe I would have uploaded the 1.41.1 releases into
experimental.
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