Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 22:19 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> 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:
> [...]
>
> What's really insane is that we don't have a nice and stable library to
> do this and instead I have to fork every time I want to compare two
> strings.
>
> Ben.
Yes, a nice and stable libdpkg is needed. But here it is ONE fork and
the script aready forks a zillion times for other tools. So no harm done.
MfG
Goswin
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iq46tvv4....@frosties.localdomain
