Bug#314571: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 01:32:48PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: Santiago, please see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg01028.html for an explanation of why I've reassigned this bug; I think awk has been accidentally left outside the Essential set in a subtle way that has gone largely unnoticed, probably because no one uses awk in their preinst scripts. :) Thanks a lot for the explanation. My only fear is: Will debootstrap manage gracefully a base-files package having a pre-depends: awk? Looking at the package relationships, I can't see any reason that it wouldn't. But I wouldn't swear on this before someone tests it. (I think unstable is an ok place to test this. :-) If yes, would the fix for this (a pre-depends: awk) be allowed in lenny? Unless overridden by the release managers, I would give this a freeze exception, yes. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#314571: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: Santiago, please see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg01028.html for an explanation of why I've reassigned this bug; I think awk has been accidentally left outside the Essential set in a subtle way that has gone largely unnoticed, probably because no one uses awk in their preinst scripts. :) Thanks a lot for the explanation. My only fear is: Will debootstrap manage gracefully a base-files package having a pre-depends: awk? If yes, would the fix for this (a pre-depends: awk) be allowed in lenny? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#314571: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?
reassign 314571 base-files tags 314571 -wontfix thanks On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:06:06PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:55:03PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: The dpkg upgrade log that Jörg showed clearly indicates that this is not the case; mawk was removed, other packages were installed, and then gawk was installed. If the use of awk in the x11-common preinst had actually been reached, it would've caused the package to fail to unpack. In case you missed my other mail in this thread, I think this is the same issue I reported in #314571. Right, I think this bug needs to be assigned to base-files. Santiago, please see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg01028.html for an explanation of why I've reassigned this bug; I think awk has been accidentally left outside the Essential set in a subtle way that has gone largely unnoticed, probably because no one uses awk in their preinst scripts. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
