[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#726801: biomaj: fails to install with Recommends enabled

[Andreas Beckmann]

> On 11/05/2013 06:08 PM, gregor herrmann wrote:
>> Oh, and I don't find the lines you quoted above in the log in
>> #726801.

A new log was on the way to the bug, but got stuck somewhere.

There are dependency cycles in the java packages involved ... and bad
handling of these by apt or dpkg

If we have dependencies A->B->C->A and X->A and the cycle gets broken by
removing A->B, we get a bad configuration ordering of A,X,C,B while the
packages should better be configured as A,C,B,X (or maybe even A,C,B,A,C,X)
But more importantly lets get rid of the circular dependencies in java
packages!

I can easily reproduce this bug in piuparts, but so far I haven't
managed to do so manually ... using the piuparts generated basetgz in
pbuilder. What I noticed is that apt does not write
/var/log/apt/term.log when run inside piuparts (besides two timestamps)
but does so when I try to run it manually in a pbuilder login session.

Also the following error is not reproducible outside piuparts:

  Warning: there was a problem reading the certificate file
/etc/ssl/certs/T?B?TAK_UEKAE_K?k_Sertifika_Hizmet_Sa?lay?c?s?_-_S?r?m_3.pem.
Message:

/etc/ssl/certs/T?B?TAK_UEKAE_K?k_Sertifika_Hizmet_Sa?lay?c?s?_-_S?r?m_3.pem
(No such file or directory)

I verified that in both cases LC_ALL=C was being used.


Andreas