On 2022-02-09 00:43 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 dpkg
>
> [For background, the dpkg output from earlier messages in this bug was:
>
>> # apt-get -f install
>> dpkg: Cycle in triggers found:
>> Chain of packages, which triggers might be the culprit:
>> man-db -> man-db
>> required triggers of packages that can't be resolved:
>> man-db: /usr/share/man
>> libc-bin: ldconfig
>> dpkg: Error while configureing package man-db (--configure):
>> Triggers build a loop, aborted
> ]
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:35:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Colin Watson writes ("Re: Bug#898627: man-db: dependency loop"):
>> > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:03:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> > > Does the man-db or libc-bin postinst explicitly trigger
>> > > /usr/share/man ?
>> >
>> > Not as far as I can see. That would have to be a dpkg-trigger(1) call,
>> > right?
>>
>> Yes. (Directly or indirectly, of course.)
>
> I think this can only have been a dpkg bug, since to my knowledge
> there's no such explicit triggering going on here, so I'm reassigning
> it. Sorry to have to reassign an old bug that may be hard to reproduce
> at this point ...
Reproducing it will likely be difficult, although I suspect this could
be the same problem as #928429, fixed in dpkg 1.19.7.
Cheers,
Sven
