Bug#408228: cdebconf: uninstallable under some conditions because of dependancy cycle

2007-01-25 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:30:21AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: You suggestion to first install debconf, then x11-common, then cdebconf is not really a solution as cdebconf is intended to replace debconf, which makes installing debconf first kind of a nobrainer. Actually,

Bug#408228: cdebconf: uninstallable under some conditions because of dependancy cycle

2007-01-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:32:49PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Actually, it should work just fine -- once x11-common has been installed once, it should be possible to replace debconf with cdebconf. And post-etch, it may be possible to drop the pre-depends (or x11-common's need for

Bug#408228: cdebconf: uninstallable under some conditions because of dependancy cycle

2007-01-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Package: cdebconf Version: 0.108 Severity: important Usertags: grid5000 piuparts Hi, During a piuparts run over all the packages in etch, I ran into a problem with your package: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... The following extra packages will be installed: defoma

Bug#408228: cdebconf: uninstallable under some conditions because of dependancy cycle

2007-01-24 Thread Otavio Salvador
Lucas Nussbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: E: Couldn't configure pre-depend x11-common for libxft2, probably a dependency cycle. I could reproduce it outside piuparts. If debconf is not installed, and you try to install cdebconf, you run into a problem: cdebconf depends on libxft2

Bug#408228: cdebconf: uninstallable under some conditions because of dependancy cycle

2007-01-24 Thread Frans Pop
severity 408228 normal tags 408228 + wontfix thanks Or rather, wontfix yet. Reason is that cdebconf is not yet ready to be a full replacement for debconf. It is currently mostly available for testing and development purposes. Issues like this are therefor to be expected and people installing

Bug#408228: cdebconf: uninstallable under some conditions because of dependancy cycle

2007-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:30:21AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: You suggestion to first install debconf, then x11-common, then cdebconf is not really a solution as cdebconf is intended to replace debconf, which makes installing debconf first kind of a nobrainer. Actually, it should work just fine