Re: Bug#974552: upgrade-reports: libc6/libcrypt split breaks perl during buster->bullseye upgrade

2020-11-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 19, Sven Joachim wrote: > I am not one of them, but AFAICS that would introduce a fatal circular > dependency between libc6 and libcrypt1: libc6 needs libcrypt1 to be > configured before it can be unpacked, but libcrypt1 depends on libc6 so > it cannot be configured before libc6 is at

Re: Bug#974552: upgrade-reports: libc6/libcrypt split breaks perl during buster->bullseye upgrade

2020-11-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-11-19 19:47 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 16, Niko Tyni wrote: > >> As to the fix, I suspect we need a pre-dependency from libc6 to libcrypt1 >> for one release cycle, so that libc6 cannot be unpacked before libcrypt1 >> is fully installed. > I think that Niko is right, so I would

Re: Bug#974552: upgrade-reports: libc6/libcrypt split breaks perl during buster->bullseye upgrade

2020-11-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 16, Niko Tyni wrote: > As to the fix, I suspect we need a pre-dependency from libc6 to libcrypt1 > for one release cycle, so that libc6 cannot be unpacked before libcrypt1 > is fully installed. I think that Niko is right, so I would like to know the opinion of the glibc maintainers. --