Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-05 Thread Niko Tyni
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:03:54PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I also only see three packages depending. I did not check all > architectures, however. And more importantly, I did not check > build-depends! Right, I didn't think of those, and the large number of them does complicate things.

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:30:39PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 23:23 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:09:18PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >[...] >> >> Any hint on looking up r

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 23:23 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:09:18PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [...] > >> Any hint on looking up reverse build-dependencies somehow? > > > >dak rm -Rn -s testing

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:09:18PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Niko tyni wrote earlier: >>> I wrote earlier: In principle we could ignore that assumption from other packages and simply drop the gs-common dependencies

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 07:52:26AM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: >On Tuesday 04 November 2008 23:37:27 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Adding dependency while preserving conflict does not work: It still >> allows old gs-common to be removed before installing t

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Luk Claes
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Niko tyni wrote earlier: >> I wrote earlier: >>> In principle we could ignore that assumption from other packages and >>> simply drop the gs-common dependencies on ghostscript and >>> ghostscript-x, and then file bugreports against packages failing to >>> work. But real

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niko tyni wrote earlier: > I wrote earlier: >> In principle we could ignore that assumption from other packages and >> simply drop the gs-common dependencies on ghostscript and >> ghostscript-x, and then file bugreports against packages failing to >

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Mark Purcell
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 23:37:27 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Adding dependency while preserving conflict does not work: It still > allows old gs-common to be removed before installing the newer one. What about a Pre-Depends: gs-common? I know it is a hack, but it may at least ensure that gs-com

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Niko Tyni
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:01:04PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > >The circular dependency I was referring to is that gs-common already > >depends on (unversioned) ghostscript, and this introduces the other > >direction. I'm not sure i

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:17:09PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: >On Tuesday 04 November 2008 18:55:41 Niko Tyni wrote: >> > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:52:28PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: >> > > > On 30/10/08 10:33, Niko Tyni wrote: >> > > > Is thi

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: >On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:07:34PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> I am now preparing an updated package that makes ghostscript depend on >> gs-common >= 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1. > >> @Niko: you

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:17:09PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: >On Tuesday 04 November 2008 18:55:41 Niko Tyni wrote: >> > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:52:28PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: >> > > > On 30/10/08 10:33, Niko Tyni wrote: >> > > > Is thi

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Niko Tyni
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:07:34PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I am now preparing an updated package that makes ghostscript depend on > gs-common >= 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1. > @Niko: you mention that this would cause a circular dependency. I > believe that is not the case when the dependency is ve

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:17:09PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: >On Tuesday 04 November 2008 18:55:41 Niko Tyni wrote: >> > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:52:28PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: >> > > > On 30/10/08 10:33, Niko Tyni wrote: >> > > > Is thi

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Mark Purcell
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 18:55:41 Niko Tyni wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:52:28PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > > > > On 30/10/08 10:33, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > > Is this something that needs documentation in the release-notes ? > > > > > > I think it would be much better to fix th

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-04 Thread Niko Tyni
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:02:42PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: > On Friday 31 October 2008 08:00:49 Niko Tyni wrote: > > reassign 503712 ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1 > > severity 503712 serious > [...] > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:52:28PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > > > On 30/10/08 10:33,

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-11-03 Thread Mark Purcell
On Friday 31 October 2008 08:00:49 Niko Tyni wrote: > reassign 503712 ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1 > severity 503712 serious [...] > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:52:28PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > > On 30/10/08 10:33, Niko Tyni wrote: [...] > > Is this something that needs documentation in th

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-10-30 Thread Niko Tyni
reassign 503712 ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1 severity 503712 serious thanks On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:21:47PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:33:57PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > > Removing gs-common ... > > Can't locate File/Copy.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl >

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-10-30 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 30/10/08 10:33, Niko Tyni wrote: Upgrading gs-common first should work around the problem. Not sure what's the best way to recover the upgrade; maybe 'aptitude install gs-common' is enough. Yes, it worked. 'aptitude install gs-common' and then 'aptitude dist-upgrade' upgraded the system.

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-10-30 Thread Niko Tyni
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:12:44AM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > On 29/10/08 21:21, Niko Tyni wrote: > ># dpkg --auto-deconfigure --unpack perl-modules_5.10.0-16_all.deb > >ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.1_amd64.deb > > I tried this but it didn't success: Sorry, that was the recipe for reproduc

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-10-30 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 29/10/08 21:21, Niko Tyni wrote: # dpkg --auto-deconfigure --unpack perl-modules_5.10.0-16_all.deb ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.1_amd64.deb I tried this but it didn't success: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg --auto-deconfigure --unpack perl-modules_5.10.0-16_all.deb (Reading database ... 7478

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-10-29 Thread Niko Tyni
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:33:57PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > Package: upgrade-reports > 'aptitude install -f' is not able to fix the problem and seems to block > when trying to remove the gs-common package. See attachment file > 3_dist-upgrade_all_messages, do a search with pattern 'Re

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-10-29 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
I don't think so. The first thing I did was precisely to upgrade apt dpkg and aptitude to the lenny version and only after I tried to dist-upgrade. But it didn't work. Thus, in this case, upgrading apt before dist-upgrading was of no help. I will tomorrow try to reproduce this bug, if you want

Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

2008-10-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm pretty sure this bug is a duplicate of 503303, which look like duplicates of #464559 (merged with #466027, #466695, #467059, #475530). "Unfortunatly" those bugs are closed in sid/lenny, but thats exactly the problem here (as we cannot upgrade apt in an etch pointrelease as upgrades nee