[DRE-maint] Bug#498700: Missing upgrade path from libdb4.2-ruby1.8 to libdb-ruby1.8

Frans Pop elendil at planet.nl
Fri Sep 12 12:03:20 UTC 2008


The upgrade also caused the following error:

dpkg: libdb4.2-ruby1.8: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you 
request:
 dhelp depends on libdb4.2-ruby1.8.
(Reading database ... 152378 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libdb4.2-ruby1.8 ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 removed doc-base file(s)...
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp.rb:21:in `require': no such file to load -- bdb 
(LoadError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp.rb:21
        from /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:27:in `require'
        from /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:27
Registering documents with dwww...
Registering documents with dhelp...
Selecting previously deselected package libdb-ruby1.8.
(Reading database ... 152316 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libdb-ruby1.8 (from .../libdb-ruby1.8_0.6.5-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up libdb-ruby1.8 (0.6.5-1) ...

This would be even worse on a bigger upgrade where the time between the old
package being removed and the new one installed may be much longer.





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