On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 04:44:07PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 04:08:04PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > >... > > Can anybody have a look at this why it's failing? Bug with references is > > #859912 > >... > > Your package shouldn't exist, this is the main problem here.
I won't say I disagree with this, but... > And the potential breakage is not limited to buildds. > > Package: open-infrastructure-locales-c.utf-8 > Provides: locales, locales-all, locales-c.utf-8 > > Your package claims to provide locales-all without actually providing it. > This is a bug in your package. > > If I have open-infrastructure-locales-c.utf-8 already installed and then > install something that depends on locales-all, your broken package would > fulfill the dependency causing locales-all not getting installed. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859912#48 Disregarding the existence of open-infrastructure-locales-c.utf-8, we do have a problem if people can't reproduce buildds failures outside of buildds. I'm not a sbuild user, but pbuilder doesn't end up installing that package. According to Daniel's message, it's not happening with sbuild either. So what the hell? > >... > > For the rational why o-i-locales-c.utf-8 is usefull, see its manpage: > > > > https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/open-infrastructure-locales-c.utf-8/locales-c.utf-8.7.en.html#Use_Case > >... > > The rationale in the manpage is nonsense. To me, it's all a long text just trying to say without really saying it that the sole purpose is to reduce disk space. IOW, this could be fulfilled by use of dpkg's path-exclude. https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/11/15/save-disk-space-by-excluding-useless-files-with-dpkg/ I'm all for open-infrastructure-locales-c.utf-8 being removed from the archive because it's a broken package that does nothing useful, but I still think we have a problem at hand when we can't reproduce what buildds are doing (and they're doing something weird). Mike
