Control: severity 652638 serious Hi!
This problem *does* break squeeze->wheezy upgrades. So we need to deal with it as soon as possible. Reproducing it is simple enough -- install doc-base plus a random collection of doc-base packages then try to upgrade to wheezy. We seem to have three bugs against different packages in various states: #652638, #673913, #648954. What it comes down to is that in the middle of the dist-upgrade you will have: * perl-base from squeeze * dpkg from squeeze * doc-base from squeeze * libuuid-perl from *wheezy* and then some other -doc package will catch doc-base triggers. Unfortunately, dpkg is quite happy to run triggers on unconfigured packages (see #671711) and this is not going to change any time soon (and any fix could not be relied upon for squeeze->wheezy). This would mean that breaks/conflicts/depends are not going to be enough to ensure that the upgrade succeeds and that will only deconfigure one package or other and not suppress the triggers for doc-base. It also means that the only way we can fix this in wheezy would be in libuuid- perl unless someone wants to consider Pre-Depends (being careful not to force the running kernel off the system, e.g. a Pre-Depends of libuuid-perl on perl- base). Hope that's some useful further information... cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint BE65 FD1E F4EA 08F3 23D4 3C6D 9FE8 B8CD 71C5 D1A8 GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7
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