On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:17:27AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: > * Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010411 21:57]: > > forced installation against dependencies, because I increase the > > shlibdeps correctly. > > Actually, if perl gets upgraded before the new library is installed, and > something else being upgraded... say the c++ libs, needs perl for its > postinstall script, you get this error. > > Or at least this happened last time I upgraded a few hundred packages :) > > Version: 5.6.0-21 > Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.0-21), perl-modules (= 5.6.0-21), libc6 (>= > 2.2.1-2), libdb2, libgdbmg1 > Version: 2.2.2-4 > > I've got the feeling perl isn't doing the libdeps right. I haven't had > time to investigate much though, and my experience so far with sending > in bugs is that if they aren't right people sometimes get decently > hostile that you even think their package has another bug. > :)
It is surely perl's bug. I can see that it depends on "libdb2" which is terribly incorrect (and is not derived from the packages shlibdeps). -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
