Followup-For: Bug #987213
Control: tag -1 patch
Hi,
a possible solution would be to move the libc6 dependency in pypy to
pre-depends s.t. pypy will not be unpacked before libc6 providing new
(and required) symbols.
Andreas
diff -Nru pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/changelog pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/changelog
--- pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/changelog 2020-11-21 18:14:19.000000000 +0100
+++ pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/changelog 2021-04-19 20:54:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+pypy (7.3.3+dfsg-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * pypy: Move libc6 dependency to Pre-Depends s.t. pypy stays usable from
+ maintainer scripts during upgrades even while unconfigured.
+ (Closes: #987213)
+
+ -- Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:54:44 +0200
+
pypy (7.3.3+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release (identical to RC1).
diff -Nru pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/control pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/control
--- pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/control 2020-11-21 18:14:19.000000000 +0100
+++ pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/control 2021-04-19 20:54:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
Package: pypy
Architecture: any
+Pre-Depends: ${pypy-libc-pre-depends}
Depends: pypy-lib (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
Breaks:
pypy-backports.functools-lru-cache (<< 1.5-3~),
diff -Nru pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/rules pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/rules
--- pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/rules 2020-11-21 18:14:19.000000000 +0100
+++ pypy-7.3.3+dfsg/debian/rules 2021-04-19 20:54:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@
override_dh_compress:
dh_compress -X.inv -X.txt
+override_dh_gencontrol-arch:
+ sed -i -r '/^shlibs:Depends=/{p; s/.*[=
,](libc[0-9][^,]*).*/pypy-libc-pre-depends=\1/}' debian/pypy.substvars
+ dh_gencontrol
+
override_dh_installdeb:
set -e; for maintscript in preinst postinst prerm; do \
sed -e 's/#VERSION#/$(VER)/g' \
