Re: Status of circular dependencies in Sid
On Sun 16 Dec 2012 02:58:36 Petter Reinholdtsen escribió: [Ian Jackson] There is still nothing per se wrong with circular dependencies [Thorsten Glaser] Actually, I’m hitting an APT bug during dist-upgrades right now for packages with circular dependencies, usually two (perl with perl-modules, and g++-$version with its library), when they are indirectly depended on by a package with Important: yes set, as was recommended for metapackages which should not be considered by APT for automatic removal. A similar issue with libqt4-dbus is blocking upgrades of a desktop installation from squeeze to wheezy the last two weeks (as detected by jenkins.debian.net). See URL: http://bugs.debian.org/655382 and related BTS reports for the details. I really hope we can get rid of the circular package dependencies. :) I've has just wrote that in the bug report, but I think without CCing here. In the case of libqt4-dbus, the fix is ready to be uploaded and ACKed by the RT, but we are waiting for a fix of a FTBFS of the previous upload. Kinds regards, Lisandro. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Status of circular dependencies in Sid
[Ian Jackson] There is still nothing per se wrong with circular dependencies [Thorsten Glaser] Actually, I’m hitting an APT bug during dist-upgrades right now for packages with circular dependencies, usually two (perl with perl-modules, and g++-$version with its library), when they are indirectly depended on by a package with Important: yes set, as was recommended for metapackages which should not be considered by APT for automatic removal. A similar issue with libqt4-dbus is blocking upgrades of a desktop installation from squeeze to wheezy the last two weeks (as detected by jenkins.debian.net). See URL: http://bugs.debian.org/655382 and related BTS reports for the details. I really hope we can get rid of the circular package dependencies. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fl62428rn7@login2.uio.no
Re: Status of circular dependencies in Sid
Ian Jackson dixit: There is still nothing per se wrong with circular dependencies Actually, I’m hitting an APT bug during dist-upgrades right now for packages with circular dependencies, usually two (perl with perl-modules, and g++-$version with its library), when they are indirectly depended on by a package with Important: yes set, as was recommended for metapackages which should not be considered by APT for automatic removal. My upgrade documentation for our company wiki has sections like: In case of problems, solve iteratively: * E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'perl'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) * E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'perl-modules'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) apt-get --purge install perl -o APT::Immediate-Configure=no apt-get --purge dist-upgrade * E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'g++-4.4'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) apt-get --purge install build-essential -o APT::Immediate-Configure=no apt-get --purge dist-upgrade And Policy says: […] breaking point is arbitrary. Packages should therefore avoid circular dependencies where possible, particularly if they have ostinst' scripts. […] bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-314 HRB AG Bonn 5168 • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Boris Esser, Sebastian Mancke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsm.4.64l.1209101217400.29...@herc.mirbsd.org
Re: Status of circular dependencies in Sid
Bill Allombert writes (Status of circular dependencies in Sid): Today circular dependencies in unstable reached an all-time low, with only 36 circular dependencies. There is still nothing per se wrong with circular dependencies and there are situations where a circular dependency is the right answer. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20552.37570.423522.36...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Re: Status of circular dependencies in Sid
Le jeudi 06 septembre 2012 à 13:10 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : There is still nothing per se wrong with circular dependencies and there are situations where a circular dependency is the right answer. I have yet to see one such situation. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1346934574.5038.86.camel@pi0307572
