On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 01:59 -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote: > My package is a rather unusual change, so it wouldn't surprise me if > I've uncovered a few bugs in apt-get. I know for certain I've found at > least one.
Not that haven't already been reported, afaics. > This doesn't make any sense, since the package replaces libwine-twain as > well. dpkg should be removing them both. It looks like dpkg is parsing the Replaces/Conflicts headers in the order in which they're written. Does it work if you move libwine-twain before libwine in those headers? If not, turn on dpkg's debugging features and examine the output. > The second thing to notice is that when I run apt-get install wine I get > the following: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Suggested packages: > wine-utils winesetup binfmt-support > The following packages will be REMOVED: > libwine libwine-alsa libwine-arts libwine-dev libwine-jack libwine-nas > libwine-print libwine-twain wine-doc winesetuptk > The following packages will be upgraded: > wine > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 10 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 13.5MB of archives. > After unpacking 3855kB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > > Two things are wrong here. For starters, the suggested packages being > displayed are wrong - those were only suggested in the old version of > the package, and are now obsolete (and even conflicted) by the new > version. Yep, that would be http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=243943 and the bug merged with it. (As a 30-second look at the bug page would have shown, fwiw). > The second is that, although apt is removing libwine-dev, it > is not replacing it with wine-dev. That's to be expected, you appear to be misunderstanding what a Replaces: header does. The purpose of the Replaces: is to say "if I install wine-dev, then remove libwine-dev first". It does *not* mean "automatically install wine-dev if libwine-dev is removed". In the apt-get invocation you quoted, libwine-dev is being remove due to the fact that it depends on libwine, not for any reason associated with the new `wine-dev' package. If you want both installed, then you either need to `apt-get install wine wine-dev' or `apt-get install wine-dev', which will automatically pull in wine due to the dependency. > So, what's the verdict: Bug in my package control file, bug in apt, bug > in dpkg, or combination of all three? A known bug in apt, a probable feature of dpkg, and a bug in your understanding, afaics. Hope this helps, Adam
