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

[olivier.sallou at codeless.fr]

On 11/10/2013 03:03 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> I can reproduce this problem in pbuilder using the sid tarball as created by piuparts and the following commands:
>
> sudo pbuilder login --basetgz /srv/piuparts/slave/basetgz/sid_amd64.tar.gz
>
> export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
> sed -i /mysql/d /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
> sed -i 's/main/main contrib non-free/' /etc/apt/sources.list
> apt-get update
> apt-get install --install-recommends biomaj-watcher
>
> The problem obvioulsy depends on the actual set of packages the are being installed and starting from a different base may yield a different result.
>
> On 2013-11-07 00:12, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>>> 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.
Just for info, I pushed biomaj 1.2.3-2 to fix the test in d/config for 
non-interactive mode (but no impact on java test/setup).
> trying again ... here is my analysis of the java dependency cycle
>
> default-jre is configured before biomaj, so dependency fulfilled
>
> openjdk-7-jre-headless is configured after default-jre, but
>
> Package: default-jre
> Source: java-common (0.49)
> Version: 1:1.7-49
> Depends: default-jre-headless (= 1:1.7-49), openjdk-7-jre (>= 7~u3-2.1.1)
>
> Package: default-jre-headless
> Source: java-common (0.49)
> Version: 1:1.7-49
> Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless (>= 7~u3-2.1.1), java-common
>
> Package: openjdk-7-jre-headless
> Source: openjdk-7
> Version: 7u25-2.3.12-4
> Provides: java-runtime-headless, java2-runtime-headless, java5-runtime-headless, java6-runtime-headless, java7-runtime-headless
> Depends: openjdk-7-jre-lib (= 7u25-2.3.12-4), ca-certificates-java, tzdata-java, java-common (>= 0.28), libcups2 (>= 1.4.0), liblcms2-2, libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libnss3 (>= 2:3.13.4), libpcsclite1, libc6 (>= 2.14), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.10.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.26.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
>
> Package: java-common
> Version: 0.49
> Depends: *nothing*
>
> Package: openjdk-7-jre-lib
> Source: openjdk-7
> Version: 7u25-2.3.12-4
> Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless (>= 7~b130~pre0)
> * first cycle *
>
> Package: ca-certificates-java
> Version: 20130815
> Depends: ca-certificates (>= 20121114), openjdk-6-jre-headless (>= 6b16-1.6.1-2) | java6-runtime-headless, libnss3 (>= 3.12.10-2~)
> * second cycle *
>
> Package: openjdk-7-jre
> Source: openjdk-7
> Version: 7u25-2.3.12-4
> Provides: java-runtime, java2-runtime, java5-runtime, java6-runtime, java7-runtime
> Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless (= 7u25-2.3.12-4), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcups2 (>= 1.4.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.10.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libgif4 (>= 4.1.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1), libx11-6, libxext6, libxi6, libxrender1, libxtst6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), libxrandr2, libxinerama1, libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libatk-wrapper-java-jni (>= 0.30.4-0ubuntu2)
>
>
> There are bugs in
> * java stuff for having circular dependencies
> * apt or dpkg for bad handling of this cycle:
>   if a dependency cycle has to be broken, all packages that depend on a package in the cycle
>   but are not part of the cycle itself, have to be configured after *all* packages in the
>   cycle have been configured
Should we in this case push the bug to the Java team ?

This means that all packages needing java in a postinst (there may need
be many) should fail this test.


Olivier
>
> Andreas
>
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