Bug#217862: two complaints about dpkg allowing versioned dependency violations on upgrade

2004-03-11 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> I was tempted to merge #217862 and #170825 but I can't be sure > that they report the same bug since the former involves a > normal dependency and the latter involves a dependency on a > virtual package. However, the submitters of these bugs may > be interested to compare notes. Yes, this real

Bug#219760: Any run of dpkg-scansources gives a error message

2003-11-08 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.10.18 Severity: normal Any run of dpkg-scansources gives the following error message here: Prototype mismatch: sub main::getopt vs (@) at /usr/bin/dpkg-scansources line 116. However, dpkg-scansources seems to work as expected. So it is just annoying. -- System Infor

Bug#217862: dpkg doesn't check if package upgrade breaks versioned dependences

2003-10-27 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:35:40PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.10.15 > > Severity: important > > > > This bug may be easilly reproduced. > > Create dummy package p1, version 1, and dummy package p2, version 1, >

Bug#217862: dpkg doesn't check if package upgrade breaks versioned dependences

2003-10-27 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:35:40PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.10.15 > > Severity: important > > > > This bug may be easilly reproduced. > > Create dummy package p1, version 1, and dummy package p2, version 1, >

Bug#217862: dpkg doesn't check if package upgrade breaks versioned dependences

2003-10-27 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.15 Severity: important This bug may be easilly reproduced. Create dummy package p1, version 1, and dummy package p2, version 1, that Depends: p1 (= 1). Install both. Now create package p2, version 2, and try to install it with dpkg -i, without any --force. Dpkg will sil

dpkg (without any --force) allows to break dependences

2003-08-23 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
How to reproduse: create test1_1.deb with package 'test1', version '1' creaet test1_2.deb with package 'test1', version '2' create test2.deb with package 'test2' that depends on test1 (>= 2) dpkg -i test1_2.deb dpkg -i test2.deb dpkg -i test1_1.deb The last commands completes without errors, and

dpkg --purge changes package status too early ?

2003-06-26 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
If I run dpkg --purge foo, package foo's selection becomes "purge" even if dpkg refuses the operation because of dependencies. Is this a bug or expected behaviour?

Re: dselect_Programm_clean_reinstall

2002-11-15 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> now I wanted to reinstall the whole thing >> with << these questions. > but when I uninstall everything and reinstall it again, > it dident ask these questions. Use dpkg-reconfigure.

Re: dpkg and symlinks

2002-10-24 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > on my system /usr/share/qt/lib was a symlink to /usr/lib. > > You should probably not do that, since it confuses dpkg. > > When dpkg sees that a directory is a symlink, it just follows it > when unpacking the contents of a package (as

dpkg and symlinks

2002-10-24 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. Some time ago I found that I can't link qt3 apps on my system, althouth libqt3-dev was installed. I found quickly that /usr/lib/libqt.so link was invalid - it pointed to ../../../lib/libqt.so.3.0.5 instead of libqt.so.3.0.5 So I did ln -sf and forgot it. Some time later libqt3-dev was up