On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 22:01 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:45:15AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I've run into two problems upgrading from woody to sarge. > > Work-aroundable problems to be sure, but upgrade hitches nonetheless in > > need of bug reports, and I don't know where to start. (Not necessarily > > Alpha issues, but noticed them on an alpha system, and not on i386.) > > > First, perl and perl-modules upgraded without perl-base, such that a > > package with install-docs in its pre- or postrm (libxml2-dev in this > > case) can't find Basename.pm. To fix this, I had to install perl-base > > by hand and restart the upgrade. This is pretty significant breakage, > > but where to file the bug, perl, or apt, or ?? > > This is RC bug #278495.
Yup, that looks like the same behavior. Thanks. > > Second, menu reinstalled but was not configured prior to being used by a > > prerm. So when ghostview's update failed with: > > > Removing ghostview ... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ghostview.postrm: /usr/bin/update-menus: Permission > > denied > > dpkg: error processing ghostview (--purge): > > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > > Again, where's the bug, and what's its nature? Does menu need to be > > configured right at install time, like many others? > > I think this is generally considered to be a bug in the calling package; at > least, the menu maintainer has stuck by this particular interface (i.e., > only setting update-menus executable when the package is configured), > because there are a number of packages that use update-menus iff it's > installed so they don't have to depend on menu. > > Since this particular bug is caused by a *woody* version of a package > calling update-menus, it would probably be a good idea to revisit this issue > with the menu maintainer, however. I would encourage you to file an RC bug > against the menu package. Okay, will do. Thanks for the clarifications! -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://www.take6.com/albums/greatesthits.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
