On 14.06.20 17:20, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 11.05.20 11:53, Winfried Münch wrote: >> package: s390-tools >> >> Version: current Installer from 04.05.2020 21:14 >> http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-s390x/current/images/generic/ >> >> >> When I install debian I run in this Problem (from console 4): >> >> May 11 09:43:43 debootstrap: Errors were encountered while processing: >> May 11 09:43:43 debootstrap: s390-tools >> May 11 09:43:44 debootstrap: dpkg: dependency problems prevent >> configuration of s390-tools: >> May 11 09:43:44 debootstrap: s390-tools depends on perl:any. >> May 11 09:43:44 debootstrap: >> May 11 09:43:44 debootstrap: dpkg: error processing package s390-tools >> (--configure): >> May 11 09:43:44 debootstrap: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured >> >> Installation failed in step install base system. > > perl:any is not part of the transitive closure that debootstrap > calculates. To me it looks like a bug in debootstrap in that it does not > find a deb to download because it does not drop the :any - either in > pkgdetails or before. > > This was presumably broken by 2.3.0-1 which packaged ziomon and included > a ${perl:Depends} on the main package as well - possibly because Lintian > alerted about the missing dependency. That was technically correct, as > it includes binaries that require modules from perl rather than > perl-base. And it would presumably have worked if "perl:any" had instead > been substituted as "perl". > > It's pretty telling how late this was discovered, sort of pointing out > that Debian s390x has no users at all if that kind of bug slips into a > stable release. Ubuntu forked the base tooling and thus was not > affected. To be honest, that tells me that the port should be demoted > and not be part of the next release. Especially given the lack of > (motivated) porters.
The good news is that with Debian stable 10.6 that was released today the installation actually works again and I was able to conduct a successful one from within z/VM. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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