On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:26:33PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> There are three other essential packages in unstable which depend on
> libc6 without using a Pre-Depends, namely base-passwd_3.2.1,
> hostname_2.08 and ncurses-bin_5.2.20010318-2.
Aha! More importantly, there's the non-essential, but required and depended
upon by perl (not perl-base) package libdb2, which doesn't Pre-Depend: on
libc6.
I think what's happening is that:
/usr/bin/perl (provided by perl-base.deb) is essential and must
always work
when perl.deb is installed, /usr/bin/perl only works if libdb.so.3
(provided by libdb2) works, which in turn only works with a new
libc6. perl depends on libdb2 (not pre-depends), libdb2 depends on
the new libc6 (not pre-depends).
Hrm. Further, libc6 Depends on libdb2, but doesn't Pre-Depend on it.
Not sure what the correct fix here is.
Perhaps:
libc6 Depends: libdb2
libdb2 Pre-Depends: libc6
perl Pre-Depends: libdb2
? Are Depends/Pre-Depends loops allowed, or are they as bad as Pre-Depends
loops?
Cheers,
aj
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