Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 14:58:21 +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: > I don't doubt that there is a smaller subset of packages that can reproduce > this failure, especially since installing those two drags in several hundred > others -- that was just as far as I had managed to get in narrowing it dow

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-19 Thread Niko Tyni
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 09:24:30AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > I believe that we will need a deeper look at #482140. At the moment I do > not fully understand that issue and its implications. The root cause > appears to be lenny's update-xmlcatalog being in a temporarily > inconsistent state due

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-19 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2013-04-18 09:24, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Andreas, could you test those debdiffs with your piuparts setup? I have I'll be offline over the weekend and look at this on Monday > a few more requests though: > * Can you ensure to pass -o Debug::pkgPackageManager=true to apt? no problem > * Can yo

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:58:21PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: > Helmut Grohne wrote: > > The conclusion here is that the only way to fix this bug in sgml-base is > > to have *no* dependency on dpkg at all. > > Actually, removing the dependency on dpkg doesn't change the outcome at all > -- >

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-17 Thread Stuart Prescott
Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Stuart Prescott also tried demoting this Pre-Dependency to Depends and > > showed that the very same upgrade failure occurs. So this is not an > > option. > > The conclusion here is that the only way to fix this bug in sgml-base is > to have *no* dependency on dpkg at all

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On Tuesday, 16. April 2013 10:40:21 Helmut Grohne wrote: > Stuart Prescott also determined that kdepim + kde-plasma-desktop are > enough to reproduce this problem. I could reproduce the problem in piuparts with installing/upgrading these two packages, but it required --install-recommends. So ther

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: reassign -1 general Control: affectes -1 + sgml-base xml-core docbook-xml Control: tags -1 + help On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:40:21AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > | PreDepends order for docbook-xml > | Trying to SmartConfigure xml-core > | SmartConfigure xml-core > | DepAdd: xml-core >

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
reassign 705452 sgml-base found 705452 1.26+nmu4 thanks I had a look at the set of packages changed in testing in the period, and I suspect this change triggered the problem: sgml-base (1.26+nmu4) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. * update-catalog --update-super ignores catal

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-15 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:35:22AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The jenkins chroot upgrade testing discovered this problem. The > upgrades of several test configurations fail with this message: > > E: Couldn't configure pre-depend xml-core for docbook-xml, probably a > dependency cyc

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: docbook-xml Version: 4.5-7.1 Severity: serious The jenkins chroot upgrade testing discovered this problem. The upgrades of several test configurations fail with this message: E: Couldn't configure pre-depend xml-core for docbook-xml, probably a dependency cycle. The test configu