On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 17:48 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 12:18 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > The Conflicts: statement will make > > sure that php-pear >= 5.3 is installed before php-net-smtp 1.4.2, which > > is the current issue, while just adding a Depends: will not (there's > > nowhere a document in Debian that tells there is an order in the way > > things are installed if you use a Depends, is it?). > > That depends on your definition of "installed". Policy states that a > package's dependencies will all have been configured before the package > itself is configured, but the problem in this case is at unpack time.
As pointed out to me elsewhere, I was being stupid here - policy *does* provide a mechanism for packages to ensure that other packages are unpacked before they are: pre-dependencies. Either php-net-smtp needs a pre-dependency on php-pear (>= 5.3.1-4 to ensure that the symlink isn't broken) after discussion on debian-devel, or it needs to ensure that /usr/share/php/doc exists in its preinst and create it, pointing at the expected location, if not. I haven't checked each package individually, but a look at squeeze's Contents suggests that php-http-request, php-soap and XML_Parser have the same issue. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
