Bug#687268: perl: breaks debsums during squeeze -> wheezy upgrade

[Niko Tyni]

reassign 687268 xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.3-1
retitle 687268 xserver-xorg-core: squeeze -> wheezy upgrade failure
thanks

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:20:12AM -0700, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:03:13 +0300
> Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 03:19:50AM -0700, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > Package: perl
> > > Version: 5.14.2-12
> > > Severity: critical
> > > 
> > > I kicked off an upgrade of a machine running stable (squeeze) to the
> > > currently frozen testing (wheezy).  During the upgrade, I hit the
> > > following:
> > 
> > It looks to me more like the upgrade is failing first, then debsums
> > is run in the failed state.
> 
> I think you're right.  Running 'apt-get -f install' the first time
> installed wheezy's perl-base, which allowed debsums to function
> properly; however, xserver-xorg-core was still failing to upgrade.  The
> second 'apt-get -f install' run fixed the issue.  I've attached the
> logs from those two calls.

[...]

> dpkg: considering deconfiguration of libgl1-mesa-dri, which would be broken by installation of xserver-xorg-core ...
> dpkg: yes, will deconfigure libgl1-mesa-dri (broken by xserver-xorg-core).
> dpkg: regarding .../xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.12.3-1_i386.deb containing xserver-xorg-core:
>  xserver-xorg-core breaks xserver-xorg-input-7
>   xserver-xorg-input-kbd provides xserver-xorg-input-7 and is present and installed.
>   xserver-xorg-input-evtouch provides xserver-xorg-input-7 and is present and installed.
>   xserver-xorg-input-mouse provides xserver-xorg-input-7 and is present and installed.
>   xserver-xorg-input-evdev provides xserver-xorg-input-7 and is present and installed.
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.12.3-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  installing xserver-xorg-core would break existing software
 
I'm reassigning this accordingly.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org