upgrade to lucid breaks completely when safe-rm is installed
Bug #568670 reported by
François Marier
This bug affects 3 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| perl (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| perl (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
| Lucid |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: perl
Due to an unfortunate extra dependency on English.pm that got introduced in safe-rm 0.5, safe-rm will break when perl is upgraded and thus it will prevent the rest of the dpkg session from working until its symlink is removed. See LP #568571
All external dependencies have been removed in safe-rm 0.8, but that doesn't solve the problem of upgrading from karmic to lucid.
Given the severity of this problem, a conflict on safe-rm << 0.8 was added on perl-base in Debian (perl 5.10.1-11).
I _highly_ recommend you do the same in Ubuntu, otherwise it will cause lots of hard to diagnose upgrade issues.
Related branches
| Changed in perl (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | Triaged → Confirmed |
| Changed in perl (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
| Changed in perl (Ubuntu): | |
| milestone: | none → ubuntu-10.04 |
Revision history for this message
| Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in perl (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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It might be safer to have mvo special case this in update-manager, but I told ajmitch to go ahead and upload a proposed resolution so it'll be available for RM review in the queue.