Debian Bug report logs - #230608
"Task: desktop" can not be assigned for 2 conflicting packages simultaneously

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: "Task: desktop" can not be assigned for 2 conflicting packages simultaneously

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 12:57:04 +0100

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Package: abiword
Version: 2.0.1+cvs.2003.11.07-2.2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software (tasksel: desktop)

I can file the same kind of bug report to abiword-gnome but these are
both from the same source and the same maintainer.  

The debian/control file of abiword source package has several issues.

1. Task: field

You can not assign "Task: desktop" for 2 conflicting packages
simultaneously.  Here are key problems you created:

For abiword:
  Conflicts: abiword-gtk, abiword-gnome

For abiword-gnome:
  Conflicts: abiword

This means, any user who installs Debian and select "desktop" from
tasklist will receive broken dependency error. Very bad first impression of
Debian guaranteed.

Please set "Task: desktop" for only one of the conflicting packages.

2. Section: gnome

You have "Section: gnome" set for "abiword" binary package.  If this
"abiword" package is really gnome version, why you uploaded
"abiword-gnome" package?  This does not make sense to me.  You either
change "Section:" for "abiword" package or stop building "abiword-gnome"
package.

3. Replaces: field

You have replace goes both way between abiword and abiword-gnome.  This
may be OK depending on how you intended these to work but versioned
"Replaces:" may be something you may have intended.  So this is not bug but
something I want you to put a thought on when fixing above issues.

Finally if you remove "abiword-gnome" package, 1 and 3 may be non issues.

If you fix this fundamental issues, you may close "#228260: Should not
Recommend abiword-gnome" too.  I think that #228260 bug report somewhat
missing the factual understandings of issues involved.  I think this bug
report describes the bugs behind his annoyance.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux dambo 2.4.24-1-686 #1 Tue Jan 6 21:29:44 EST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1

Versions of packages abiword depends on:
ii  abiword-common  2.0.1+cvs.2003.11.07-2.2 WYSIWYG word processor based on GT
ii  libatk1.0-0     1.4.1-1                  The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6           2.3.2.ds1-11             GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libenchant1     1.1.1+cvs.2003.11.08-1   a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libfontconfig1  2.2.1-13                 generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6    2.1.7-2                  FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libfribidi0     0.10.4-1                 Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcc1         1:3.3.3-0pre3            GCC support library
ii  libglade2-0     2.0.1-6                  Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0    2.2.3-1                  The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0     2.2.4-3                  The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgucharmap3   1:1.2.0-4                Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libpango1.0-0   1.2.5-2.1                Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0      1.2.5.0-4                PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0        1.7-4                    lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstdc++5      1:3.3.3-0pre3            The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libxft2         2.1.2-5                  FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxml2         2.6.4-1                  GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1     0.8.3-5                  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  xlibs           4.2.1-15                 X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.1-3                compression library - runtime

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Message #10 received at 230608-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>

To: 230608-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: No longer release critical

Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:15:02 +0100

severity 230608 normal
thanks

> 1. Task: field

This field is not in the package itself but in the override file.
Bugs in tasks should be filed against tasksel.

In any case, abiword has apparently been removed from the desktop task
so there is no longer a critical problem here.


> 2. Section: gnome

The abiword package is GTK+.  If it doesn't go in the gnome section
then where do you think it should go?


> 3. Replaces: field

I agree that this is odd.  I can't see the point of making
abiword and abiword-gnome Replace each other as well as
Conflict with each other.  This may indeed be the cause of
#228260.

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Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>

Message #15 received at 230608-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>

To: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>, 230608-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#230608: No longer release critical

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 01:46:07 +0100

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:15:02PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> severity 230608 normal
> thanks
> 
> > 1. Task: field
> 
> This field is not in the package itself but in the override file.
> Bugs in tasks should be filed against tasksel.
> 
> In any case, abiword has apparently been removed from the desktop task
> so there is no longer a critical problem here.

Fiar enough.  Normal bug it is.

> > 2. Section: gnome
> 
> The abiword package is GTK+.  If it doesn't go in the gnome section
> then where do you think it should go?

Hmmm... x11 since gnome requires more than gtk, I thought. 

> > 3. Replaces: field
> 
> I agree that this is odd.  I can't see the point of making
> abiword and abiword-gnome Replace each other as well as
> Conflict with each other.  This may indeed be the cause of
> #228260.

Yep.

Message #20 received at 230608@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Masayuki Hatta <mhatta@po.airs.net>

To: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>

Cc: debian-devel@list.debian.org, debian-devel@debian.or.jp, 230608@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: MIA? where is abiword maintainer

Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:49:52 +0900

Hello,

>>>>> In <20040205203921.GC12316@aokiconsulting.com> 
>>>>>	Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> I filed really easy to fix critical bug report to abiword which is
> a relatively high profile desktop package.
>      http://bugs.debian.org/230608

> I see no response and your package has been NMU fixed twice for recent
> major bug reports?  Are you there?  Many unfixed bugs on BTS too.

I'm here, but my GPG key has been removed since Debian machines
compromises and to make it worse I was extremely busy.  Also your bug
report was utterly wrong or misleading.

> 1. Task: field
>
> You can not assign "Task: desktop" for 2 conflicting packages
> simultaneously.  Here are key problems you created:

I DON'T ASSIGN Task: desktop OR WHATEVER.  That's tasksel's business
(see tasksel package).  Don't you even check the fact?

2. and 3. are not even critical bugs.

Therefore,

>>>>> In <20040205203921.GC12316@aokiconsulting.com> 
>>>>>	Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> I filed really easy to fix critical bug report to abiword which is
> a relatively high profile desktop package.
>      http://bugs.debian.org/230608

You didn't report easy critical bug report, you filed critical report
*easily*.

Witt Best,
MH

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Message #25 received at 230608-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>

To: 230608-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: New sarge tasksel solved this.

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:31:31 +0200

Yep.  I am checking my old bug reports.
New sarge tasksel solved this.
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