On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 02:02 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/21/2010 02:26 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > 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 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) ?
As mentioned above, either php-net-smtp needs a "Pre-Depends: php-pear (>= 5.3.1-4)", after discussion on debian-devel, or its preinst needs to confirm that /usr/share/php/doc exists and, if not, create it as a symlink to the expected location (as generated by php-pear); as the symlink shipped by the php-pear packages in Lenny is broken, the pre-dependency is probably the safer solution, as it will ensure that /usr/share/php/doc is created correctly before php-net-smtp is unpacked. Neither a Conflicts nor Breaks are required, nor is the versioned dependency. Versioning the dependency makes apt do the right thing, but the pre-dependency is the only way to make the packages upgradable via dpkg and, more importantly, policy compliant. > 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? According to the Contents file for squeeze (at least on amd64) the only packages shipping any files under /usr/share/php/doc/ are php-pear, php-http-request, php-net-smtp, php-soap and php-xml-parser; php-pear is obviously okay, as it owns the symlink. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
