Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-19 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2013-04-18 09:24, Helmut Grohne wrote: Andreas, could you test those debdiffs with your piuparts setup? I have I'll be offline over the weekend and look at this on Monday a few more requests though: * Can you ensure to pass -o Debug::pkgPackageManager=true to apt? no problem * Can you

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-19 Thread Niko Tyni
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 09:24:30AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: I believe that we will need a deeper look at #482140. At the moment I do not fully understand that issue and its implications. The root cause appears to be lenny's update-xmlcatalog being in a temporarily inconsistent state due to

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 14:58:21 +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: I don't doubt that there is a smaller subset of packages that can reproduce this failure, especially since installing those two drags in several hundred others -- that was just as far as I had managed to get in narrowing it down

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:58:21PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: Helmut Grohne wrote: The conclusion here is that the only way to fix this bug in sgml-base is to have *no* dependency on dpkg at all. Actually, removing the dependency on dpkg doesn't change the outcome at all -- dpkg is

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: reassign -1 general Control: affectes -1 + sgml-base xml-core docbook-xml Control: tags -1 + help On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:40:21AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: | PreDepends order for docbook-xml | Trying to SmartConfigure xml-core | SmartConfigure xml-core | DepAdd: xml-core |

Processed (with 1 errors): Re: Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: reassign -1 general Bug #705452 [sgml-base] docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem Bug reassigned from package 'sgml-base' to 'general'. No longer marked as found in versions sgml-base/1.26+nmu4. Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #705452

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On Tuesday, 16. April 2013 10:40:21 Helmut Grohne wrote: Stuart Prescott also determined that kdepim + kde-plasma-desktop are enough to reproduce this problem. I could reproduce the problem in piuparts with installing/upgrading these two packages, but it required --install-recommends. So there

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-17 Thread Stuart Prescott
Helmut Grohne wrote: Stuart Prescott also tried demoting this Pre-Dependency to Depends and showed that the very same upgrade failure occurs. So this is not an option. The conclusion here is that the only way to fix this bug in sgml-base is to have *no* dependency on dpkg at all.

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: docbook-xml Version: 4.5-7.1 Severity: serious The jenkins chroot upgrade testing discovered this problem. The upgrades of several test configurations fail with this message: E: Couldn't configure pre-depend xml-core for docbook-xml, probably a dependency cycle. The test

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-15 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:35:22AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The jenkins chroot upgrade testing discovered this problem. The upgrades of several test configurations fail with this message: E: Couldn't configure pre-depend xml-core for docbook-xml, probably a dependency cycle.

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
reassign 705452 sgml-base found 705452 1.26+nmu4 thanks I had a look at the set of packages changed in testing in the period, and I suspect this change triggered the problem: sgml-base (1.26+nmu4) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. * update-catalog --update-super ignores

Processed: Re: Bug#705452 docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 705452 sgml-base Bug #705452 [docbook-xml] docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem Bug reassigned from package 'docbook-xml' to 'sgml-base'. No longer marked as found in versions docbook-xml/4.5-7.1. Ignoring request to