Package: linux-base Version: 2.6.32-17 Severity: important Hi,
in the linux-image packages there is now a dependency chain from linux-image-2.6... -> linux-base -> libapt-pkg-perl -> libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8. Which is the virtual package provided by apt to signal the ABI of its library and binary caches. In effect the kernels are locked to a specific ABI version of apt. The problem is that the ABI changes from time to time and every time it does an update of apt will now remove the kernel for the duration of the transition. For an example try installing apt from experimental. Well, that is life you might say. That is what is called a library transition. But here comes the insane part. The 1637 line long perl postinst script of linux-base only depends on apt because of this code at the end: sub compare_versions { return $AptPkg::Config::_config->system->versioning->compare(@_); } if ($ARGV[0] eq 'reconfigure' || defined($ENV{DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE}) || (!is_fresh_installation() && compare_versions($ARGV[1], $libata_transition_ver) < 0)) { DebianKernel::DiskId::transition(); } Could I suggest replacing this with a call to system('dpkg', '--compare-versions', $ARGV[1], '>>', $libata_transition_ver) That way the dependency on apt can be droped completly. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6-xen-2010.02.18 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages linux-base depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libuuid-perl 0.02-3+b1 Perl extension for using UUID inte ii udev 157-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii util-linux 2.17.2-3 Miscellaneous system utilities linux-base recommends no packages. linux-base suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org