Debian Bug report logs - #33618
dpkg: most recent hamm version, but *multiple* packages insist it be upgraded!

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lazarus Long <lazarus@tower.overdue.dyn.ml.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Severity: Important

Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:25:18 -0500

Subject: dpkg: most recent hamm version, but *multiple* packages insist it be upgraded!
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.23.2

Yesterday, mailx refused to install because of this same problem.  Today, it
 is svgalib-bin that complains.  The following is the text of the session.

Unpacking svgalib-bin (from svgalib-bin_1.3.0-0.3.deb) ...

You must upgrade dpkg before installing this package.

dpkg: error processing svgalib-bin_1.3.0-0.3.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 svgalib-bin_1.3.0-0.3.deb
E: Sub-process returned an error code
Some errors occured while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
 


-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux tower 2.0.33 #1 Thu Apr 16 22:56:56 EDT 1998 i486 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
hi  libc6           2.0.7t-1       The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
hi  libstdc++2.8    2.90.29-0.6    The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
hi  ncurses3.4      1.9.9g-8.10    Video terminal manipulation - shared librari

Message #10 received at 33618@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>

To: Lazarus Long <lazarus@tower.overdue.dyn.ml.org>, 33618@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#33618: Severity: Important

Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:34:12 +0100

severity 33618 important
thanks

Lazarus Long wrote:
> Subject: dpkg: most recent hamm version, but *multiple* packages insist it be upgraded!
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.4.0.23.2

Missing header, adjusted now.

Regards,

	Joey

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Message #21 received at 33618@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>

To: 33618@bugs.debian.org, 33618-submitter@bugs.debian.org, svgalib-bin@packages.debian.org

Subject: *multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:21:50 +0100 (BST)

I can see why you think this might be a bug in dpkg, but the error
message you quote doesn't appear in the dpkg source code.

Please can you take a look at the svgalib-bin preinst and see whether
it's in there ?

Thanks,
Ian.

Message #29 received at 33618@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>

To: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>, 33618@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 33618-submitter@bugs.debian.org, svgalib-bin@packages.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#33618: *multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:50:41 +0200

On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 09:21:50PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Please can you take a look at the svgalib-bin preinst and see whether
> it's in there ?

$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/svgalib-bin.preinst 
#!/bin/sh
 
set -e
dpkg --assert-working-epoch 2>&- || {
    echo -e "\nYou must upgrade dpkg before installing this package.\n"
    false
}
$

This dpkg option was added in version 1.4.0.7, and dpkg in question was
1.4.0.23.2. I've now tried this option, it works normally with version
1.4.0.34. Of course, the svgalib-bin package installed flawlessly.

I think it's now way too late to be worrying about hamm's dpkg version,
since it's obviously fixed in more current versions, and we don't support
hamm anymore.

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Message #37 received at 33618@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>

To: Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>, 33618@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 33618-submitter@bugs.debian.org, svgalib-bin@packages.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#33618: multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 17:30:04 +0100 (BST)

Josip Rodin writes ("Bug#33618: multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade"):
...
> dpkg --assert-working-epoch 2>&- || {
...
> This dpkg option was added in version 1.4.0.7, and dpkg in question was
> 1.4.0.23.2. I've now tried this option, it works normally with version
> 1.4.0.34. Of course, the svgalib-bin package installed flawlessly.
> 
> I think it's now way too late to be worrying about hamm's dpkg version,
> since it's obviously fixed in more current versions, and we don't support
> hamm anymore.

Hmm.  Very well.

I notice that the
 --assert-working-epoch
option was added in the NMU series, but not filed as a bug, so it
wasn't in my tree.

I've added it now (I've already fixed, I think, the bug that it refers
to).

Ian.

Message #45 received at 33618@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@zetnet.co.uk>

To: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>

Cc: 33618@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#33618: multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade

Date: 01 Aug 1999 20:39:35 +0100

Hi Ian,

Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Josip Rodin writes ("Bug#33618: multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade"):
> ...
> > dpkg --assert-working-epoch 2>&- || {
> ...
> > This dpkg option was added in version 1.4.0.7, and dpkg in question was
> > 1.4.0.23.2. I've now tried this option, it works normally with version
> > 1.4.0.34. Of course, the svgalib-bin package installed flawlessly.
> > 
> > I think it's now way too late to be worrying about hamm's dpkg version,
> > since it's obviously fixed in more current versions, and we don't support
> > hamm anymore.
> 
> Hmm.  Very well.
> 
> I notice that the
>  --assert-working-epoch
> option was added in the NMU series, but not filed as a bug, so it
> wasn't in my tree.
> 
> I've added it now (I've already fixed, I think, the bug that it refers
> to).

Just checking: you mean you've added/will add the option to the
version of dpkg in Hamm, so I can close this bug?  Otherwise, I can
reassign it to dpkg, or whatever you think best! ;-)

Thanks,

Andy

-- 
Andy Mortimer                                 andy.mortimer@zetnet.co.uk
-- 
Andy walking, Andy tired,
Andy take a little snooze
    -- "Andy Warhol," David Bowie

Message #52 received at 33618@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>

To: Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@zetnet.co.uk>

Cc: 33618@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#33618: multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:40:24 +0100 (BST)

Andy Mortimer writes ("Re: Bug#33618: multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade"):
> Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:
...
> > I notice that the
> >  --assert-working-epoch
> > option was added in the NMU series, but not filed as a bug, so it
> > wasn't in my tree.
> > 
> > I've added it now (I've already fixed, I think, the bug that it refers
> > to).
> 
> Just checking: you mean you've added/will add the option to the
> version of dpkg in Hamm, so I can close this bug?  Otherwise, I can
> reassign it to dpkg, or whatever you think best! ;-)

No, I'm not going to add it to the dpkg in hamm because hamm does not
exist any more.  You're confused, I think.

I'm referring to current dpkg development.

Ian.

Message #57 received at 33618@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@zetnet.co.uk>

To: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>

Cc: 33618@bugs.debian.org, 33619-done@bugs.debian.org, 33626-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#33618: multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade

Date: 30 Aug 1999 17:56:50 +0100

Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Andy Mortimer writes ("Re: Bug#33618: multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade"):
> > Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> ...
> > > I notice that the
> > >  --assert-working-epoch
> > > option was added in the NMU series, but not filed as a bug, so it
> > > wasn't in my tree.
> > > 
> > > I've added it now (I've already fixed, I think, the bug that it refers
> > > to).
> > 
> > Just checking: you mean you've added/will add the option to the
> > version of dpkg in Hamm, so I can close this bug?  Otherwise, I can
> > reassign it to dpkg, or whatever you think best! ;-)
> 
> No, I'm not going to add it to the dpkg in hamm because hamm does not
> exist any more.  

It exists until the last person upgrades it ... ;-)

> You're confused, I think.
> 
> I'm referring to current dpkg development.

Erm ... perhaps I am.  I was thinking of bugs #33619/#33626, from
(IIRC) the same submittor, who was talking about the problems with
--assert-working-epoch in the *Hamm* version of dpkg making it
impossible for people to upgrade svgalib; this seems to be the same
bug as 33618, although I don't have the logs handy.  I therefore read
your statement as saying that you were going to fix the version in
Hamm; I'm not on top of things enough to know if there's a
"hamm-updates" lying around somewhere!

So long as the most recent versions of dpkg support this option
correctly, I guess there isn't a problem after all!  (Anyone upgrading
to the Potato svgalib should have recent dpkg, or they won't get very
far anyway).

Thanks,

Andy

-- 
Andy Mortimer                                 andy.mortimer@zetnet.co.uk
-- 
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Andy take a little snooze
    -- "Andy Warhol," David Bowie

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