On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 02:11:23PM +0000, Stuart Prescott wrote: > > And ? What does it proves ? As a member of the glibc packaging team I > > quite know what I'm saying. > > I know that you know that -- that comment wasn't for you but for the original > reporter and anyone else who might (like I did) waste considerable time > trying to work out what was wrong with the locales package. I eventually > found the above explanation of what was going on.
There is a /usr/share/bug/locales/presubj to explain that, and a NEWS.Debian or a README.Debian, so I feel like closing the bug without more ado appropriate. The reporter used reportbug, hence saw that, and didn't read. Not my fault. > > Locales from glibc 2.7 aren't installable, > > bummer. It doesn't prevents you to install any other debian package as > > none depends upon glibc 2.7 (or that's a bug in them). > > Actually, it is causing problems in pbuilders -- this is a default pbuilder > install within etch of a sid chroot. For example: > > sun-java6-jdk depends on sun-java6-jre > sun-java6-jre depends on locales > locales in sid is 2.7-0exp6 and depends on glibc-2.7-1 > glibc-2.7-1 is not installable. > Therefore, sun-java6-jdk is not installable. > > There are a lot of packages that depend on locales and if locales is not > installable within a chroot, then those packages are also not installable. If > you believe this is an incorrect dependency, then there are quite a few bugs > that need filing. > > Pulling the locales package from lenny would solve this problem, but that > seems somehow "dirty". I guess an existing pbuilder would probably also > continue as it could just use an older locales to work and that it's just new > chroots that are broken. I know there are issues for people that don't have etch sources in their autobuilder/chroot/whatever. Though adding etch sources will allow you to build packages. You also can use my setup to inject a directory of .debs as usable debs (see http://madism.org/~madcoder/dotfiles/ the pbuilder ones) and just drop working locales and so on in there, it should just work). -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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