On 2015-06-14 18:43:33 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 16:03:32 +0200, Vincent Lefevre > <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > >Normally, a well-designed dependency system should make sure that the > >user cannot install an incorrect combination of packages (avoiding > >segmentation faults and internal errors), e.g. during a partial > >upgrade. But it appears that this is not the case, and users are > >required to do "apt-get (dist-)upgrade" and can no longer rely on > >"apt-get install <some package>" to upgrade just the wanted package > >and dependencies: > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788710#10 > > > >Note that the problem still occurs on an available set of packages: > >just start with a Debian/stable system (jessie) and upgrade > >libgnutls-deb0-28 to unstable (no dependencies/conflicts will > >yield an upgrade of wget, which will occasionally segfault). > > So gnutls-deb0-28 needs a versioned dependency on the correct wget > version. Is that a problem?
The bug was closed without fixing the dependency (gnutls-deb0-28 should actually break libnettle4). > btw, please read up on bug severities. I consider filing this bug as > "grave" quite short of being offensive. Well, I got segfaults and internal errors on various websites. A package that is broken at this point is almost completely unusable, so that it deserves a "grave" bug. Note that I hadn't thought that this was a dependency problem precisely because libgnutls-deb0-28 allowed such a package combination. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150614201809.ga20...@xvii.vinc17.org