Re: Bug#898627: man-db: dependency loop
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 02:14:56PM +0200, Philipp Marek wrote:
> Due to a bad $TERM I got my "apt-get upgrade" break down, "too many errors"
> in man-db.
>
> When trying to fix that, I got (error messages manually translated -
> fixed the problem first):
>
> # apt-get -f install
> dpkg: Cycle in triggers found:
> Chain of packages, which triggers might be the culprit:
> man-db -> man-db
> required triggers of packages that can't be resolved:
> man-db: /usr/share/man
> libc-bin: ldconfig
> dpkg: Error while configureing package man-db (--configure):
> Triggers build a loop, aborted
>
>
> A manual "dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db-*" did fix the
> basic problem, of course, so that the "apt-get -f install" was able to
> recover.
I've never seen this myself. I guess it's due to man-db having
"interest-noawait /usr/share/man" in its triggers and itself shipping
files in /usr/share/man; but shouldn't dpkg notice that this is
trivially resolved by configuring man-db and not consider it as a cycle?
In any case I don't see any way to exclude man-db itself from the file
trigger if that's not the case.
CCing the dpkg maintainers.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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