On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 19:02, Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/21/2010 02:26 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> 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 > > Adam, > > I am ok to do anything that is required, but I'd need to know what you > want me to do. Should I reupload php-net-smtp with a Conflicts: which > was my intention in the first place (the Breaks: was a mistake), or > should I simply reupload with only a Depends: php-pear (>= 5.3) ? > > I can prepare fixes for php-http-rquest and php-xml-parser too, if > nobody else is willing to work on them. I have few servers running them, > and I wouldn't like experiencing upgrade issues. Did you check all php > PEAR packages in Debian? Is there any chance that there's more packages > with the issue? > > As for php-soap, this is in the core of PHP5, right?
No, it's not. > So I guess that > Ondřej Surý would take care of that? Ondřej, can you confirm that you > will? Do you need me to write a patch and push it to our Git (it's a > trivial dependency tweak that we need here...)? O. -- Ondřej Surý <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
