Bug#685243: breaks squeeze-wheezy upgrade into very bad state

[intrigeri]

Hi VLC maintainers,

intrigeri wrote (23 Sep 2012 14:22:32 GMT) :
> I confirm the upgrade process is left is a deeply broken state, which
> "apt-get -f install" and "dpkg --configure -a" are unable to resolve.
> I had to manually "dpkg -i" a few dozen packages in the right order
> before apt-get could get back to a working state.

>> vlc-cache-gen was run in postinst prior to 2.0.0-1. I dunno, why it
>> is still called.

> I had a look, immediately after seeing apt-get/dpkg aborted by this
> error, to the installed vlc-nox's postinst: this file was still
> present, and it did contain a call to vlc-cache-gen.

> It looks to me as if the file trigger set by vlc-nox on
> /usr/lib/vlc/plugins made the old vlc-nox.postinst run *before*
> vlc-nox is upgraded (and before that old postinst is removed).

What are your plans to fix this bug in time for the Wheezy release?

If you don't think you'll manage to do it yourselves, I'm sure this is
no big issue, but then you may want to tag the bug "help" so that the
situation is made clear, and so that people working on RC bugs can
prioritize this one :)

Cheers,
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