On 2015-06-14 18:15:33 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > > > Note that the problem still occurs on an available set of packages: > > just start with a Debian/stable system (jessie) and upgrade > > libgnutls-deb0-28 to unstable (no dependencies/conflicts will > > yield an upgrade of wget, which will occasionally segfault). > > well, then, obviously, the dependency on libgnutls-deb0-28 (>= 3.3.0) in > wget is a bit too optimistic. This could have been prevented by the wget > maintainer selecting a more restrictive set ot libgnutls versions, > probably just 3.3.0.
Well, there are two things that one wants to avoid: 1. Upgrading libgnutls-deb0-28 to a version using libnettle6 without upgrading the packages that depend on libgnutls-deb0-28 and use libnettle4. This is the problem I've mentioned here. And there's now the following bug reported by Felipe Sateler: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788735 (Bug 788710 shouldn't have been closed, but changed to something like what bug 788735 says.) 2. Upgrading wget to to a version using libnettle6 without upgrading libgnutls-deb0-28 to such a version too. For this point, I agree that the dependency on libgnutls-deb0-28 (>= 3.3.0) in wget is too optimistic. That's the following bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787942 BTW, if wget had the correct dependency, I would probably never have seen problem (1). > In any case, this is nothing any package dependency system could fix > unless told about the situation, because, as noted above, there even is > an expressly written rule stating that 3.3.15, being >= 3.3.0, is > perfectly ok, and that's what apt takes into account, and that's the > best it can do. OK, so, that's more a problem with developers who close bugs without fixing the dependencies. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150614203828.gb20...@xvii.vinc17.org