Woah. What a mess. :) Thanks Jason!
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 11:17:59PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Package: libgtk1.2 > Version: 1.2.6-1 > Severity: important > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > In any event, I rather like many of the packages apt suggested > > uninstalling, so I am not sure upgrading is really the right thing to > > do, but releasing potato in a state where the newest libc6 libraries > > conflict with so many useful packages, it just seems wrong. > > It appears APT is unable to resolve the forced removal of gconv-modules > and the substitution of locales. Regrettably, I don't think this is > something APT is going to be able to do in the future at all, it is a > highly complicated.. The dependency relations look something like this: > > /-> gconv-modules -\ > libgtk1.2 -> ?? ^ +-> (conflict) libc6 > | \-> locales -| (conflict) | (depend+conflict!) > ----------------------------------------------+ > > Lots of nice circles and the bizzar use of | causes the paradoxical > depending and not-depending on libc6 simultaneously! > > I think the primary way to fix this problem is to fix up the depends line > of libgtk1.2: > > Depends: gconv-modules | libc6 (<< 2.1), libc6, libc6 (>= 2.1), libglib1.2 > (>= 1.2.0), xlib6g (>= 3.3.4-1) > Mentioning libc6 3 times is really, really lame and I think that the > fact it is in the failing | group is the primary cause of this > problem. > > Thus the identical depends line: > Depends: gconv-modules, libc6 (> 2.1), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), xlib6g(>= > 3.3.4-1) > > Should be used instead! > > Ideally, to really stamp this out libgtk1.2 would directly depend on > locales (Joel??) for potato. However, I have a feeling just fixing that | > group will make it go away! > > Any other packages that use the above rediculous construct should also be > fixed as well!! > > This bug gets to be important for two primary reasons: > 1) Old APTs freak out when they see this in a really strange and scary > way > 2) New APTs like to remove libgtk1.2 to solve the problem, thus nuking > substantial amounts of gtk using packages in the process. > > dselect users (at least on top of APT) will not see this problem > *so long as they correctly select locales when prompted*! > > Jason -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
