James Vega wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:29:07PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
>> #        - Honor the configuration option
>> #          'cupt::worker::allow-indirect-upgrade' to work around packages 
>> with
>> #          broken-by-design dependencies that make the package unupgradeable.
>> #          Thanks to James Vega. Upload priority is set to 'high' due to this
>> #          fix. (Closes: #551831)
> 
> Although the upgrade did work, I'm not sure it's working as cleanly as
> it should be:
> 
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 106538 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing libc6-i686 ...
> Purging configuration files for libc6-i686 ...
> (Reading database ... 106488 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libc-bin 2.9-27 (using .../libc-bin_2.10.1-1_i386.deb) 
> ...
> Unpacking replacement libc-bin ...
> Preparing to replace libc-dev-bin 2.9-27 (using 
> .../libc-dev-bin_2.10.1-1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libc-dev-bin ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> (Reading database ... 106488 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.9-27 (using .../libc6-dev_2.10.1-1_i386.deb) 
> ...
> Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
> Preparing to replace locales-all 2.9-27 (using 
> .../locales-all_2.10.1-1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement locales-all ...
> Preparing to replace libc6 2.9-27 (using .../libc6_2.10.1-1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
> dpkg: locales-all: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you 
> requested:
>  locales-all depends on glibc-2.10-1; however:
>   Package glibc-2.10-1 is not installed.
> Setting up locales-all (2.10.1-1) ...
> dpkg: libc6: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
>  libc6 depends on libc-bin (= 2.10.1-1); however:
>   Package libc-bin is not configured yet.
> Setting up libc6 (2.10.1-1) ...
> dpkg: libc6-dev: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
>  libc6-dev depends on libc-dev-bin (= 2.10.1-1); however:
>   Package libc-dev-bin is not configured yet.
> Setting up libc6-dev (2.10.1-1) ...
> Setting up libc-bin (2.10.1-1) ...
> Setting up libc-dev-bin (2.10.1-1) ...
> (Reading database ... 106489 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.25-2 (using 
> .../libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.25-3_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libgstreamer0.10-0 ...
> Setting up libgstreamer0.10-0 (0.10.25-3) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package libc6-i686.
> (Reading database ... 106484 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libc6-i686 (from .../libc6-i686_2.10.1-1_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up libc6-i686 (2.10.1-1) ...
> 
> It seems like locales-all, libc6, and libc6-dev should have been able to
> be installed without the use of force-depends.

Locales-all has the strict dependency on libc6, and libc6 has the strict
dependency on libc-bin, so --force-depends might be needed.

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer

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