Debian Bug report logs - #379783
srcinst: does not handle properly virtual packages

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

From: "Eddy Petrişor" <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: srcinst: does not handle properly virtual packages

Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:21:39 +0300

Subject: srcinst: does not handle properly virtual packages
Package: srcinst
Version: 0.8.4
Severity: important

It seems that srcinst has a great deal of problem when it encounters
virtual packages.

The package vdrift is not yet in etch, but is present in unstable. Using
srcinst to install it seemed like a good idea.


cipiripi:/home/eddy# srcinst install vdrift
buildOrInstall: Processing vdrift
Running: bash ["-c","dpkg -s vdrift 2>/dev/null"]
readdata dpkg -s vdrift: user error (Command bash ["-c","dpkg -s
vdrift 2>/dev/null"] failed; exit code 1)
Running: bash ["-c","apt-cache showsrc vdrift 2>/dev/null"]
(Nothing,Just "0.0.2006.02.21-1")
buildOrInstallRunner: vdrift 0.0.2006.02.21-1
hascache: testing vdrift_0.0.2006.02.21-1_*.deb
hascache returnung False
Beginning build of vdrift
Running: bash ["-c","apt-cache showsrc vdrift 2>/dev/null"]
Running: bash ["-c","dpkg --print-architecture 2>/dev/null"]
procThisDep: my arch is i386
Running: bash ["-c","dpkg -s cdbs 2>/dev/null"]
Running: bash ["-c","dpkg --print-architecture 2>/dev/null"]
procThisDep: my arch is i386
Running: bash ["-c","dpkg -s debhelper 2>/dev/null"]
Running: bash ["-c","apt-cache showsrc debhelper 2>/dev/null"]
procpkg: running debhelper (">=","5.0.0")(Just "5.0.37.3",Just "5.0.37.3")
debhelper installed OK already
Running: bash ["-c","dpkg --print-architecture 2>/dev/null"]
procThisDep: my arch is i386
Running: bash ["-c","dpkg -s libsdl-dev 2>/dev/null"]
readdata dpkg -s libsdl-dev: user error (Command bash ["-c","dpkg -s
libsdl-dev 2>/dev/null"] failed; exit code 1)
buildOrInstall: Processing libsdl-dev
Running: bash ["-c","dpkg -s libsdl-dev 2>/dev/null"]
readdata dpkg -s libsdl-dev: user error (Command bash ["-c","dpkg -s
libsdl-dev 2>/dev/null"] failed; exit code 1)
Running: bash ["-c","apt-cache showsrc libsdl-dev 2>/dev/null"]
(Nothing,Nothing)
srcinst: user error (libsdl-dev is not available in source form)

cipiripi:/home/eddy# apt-cache search libsdl-dev
libsdl1.2-dev - Simple DirectMedia Layer development files
cipiripi:/home/eddy# apt-cache show libsdl1.2-dev
Package: libsdl1.2-dev
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 2700
Maintainer: Debian SDL packages maintainers
<pkg-sdl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: libsdl1.2
Version: 1.2.10-3
Replaces: libsdl-dev, libsdl0.11-dev, libsdl1.0-dev, libsdl1.1-dev
Provides: libsdl-dev
Depends: libsdl1.2debian (= 1.2.10-3), libxt-dev, libxext-dev,
libglu1-xorg-dev | libglu-dev, libsvga1-dev, libasound2-dev,
libaa1-dev, libaudio-dev, libartsc0-dev, libesd0-dev, libdirectfb-dev
(>= 0.9.22)
Conflicts: xlibs-pic (<< 4.1.0-10), libsdl-dev, libsdl0.11-dev,
libsdl0.11, libsdl1.0-dev, libsdl1.1-dev
Filename: pool/main/libs/libsdl1.2/libsdl1.2-dev_1.2.10-3_i386.deb
Size: 734814
MD5sum: 95b9ae5db3a293e068f5a18f928b33c6
SHA1: 33d09227567fe9a433b1cc8b334df6ecf37294ba
SHA256: 8b996b252d59072009170bd867247bb5a9096c4f5c7f3c9eeaae71952c9b38e7
Description: Simple DirectMedia Layer development files
SDL is a library that allows programs portable low level access to a video
framebuffer, audio output, mouse, and keyboard.
.
This package contains the files needed to compile and link programs which
use SDL.
Tag: devel::library, role::sw:devel-lib, uitoolkit::sdl



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
 APT prefers testing
 APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages srcinst depends on:
ii  apt                           0.6.44.2   Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  build-essential               11.2       informational list of build-essent
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgmp3c2                     4.1.4-10   Multiprecision arithmetic library

srcinst recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at 379783@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eddy Petrisor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <379783@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: srcinst: providers can be found

Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:18:07 +0300

Package: srcinst
Version: 0.8.5
Followup-For: Bug #379783

Hello,

It appears that apt-get or aptitude can give some useful information
about virtual packages which srcinst could use.

# LANG=C aptitude show libcairo-dev
No current or candidate version found for libcairo-dev
Package: libcairo-dev
State: not a real package
Provided by: libcairo2-dev
# [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo ok!
ok!
# LANG=C apt-cache showpkg libcairo-dev
Package: libcairo-dev
Versions:

Reverse Depends:
  libcairo2-dev,libcairo-dev
Dependencies:
Provides:
Reverse Provides:
libcairo2-dev 1.2.4-1
# [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo ok!
ok!


... as a bonus, they don't generate an error if the package is virtual
;-)

The bad news is that either srcinst will depend on apt{,itude} or it
will recomend one of them and will take care not to call them, if not
installed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages srcinst depends on:
ii  apt                       0.6.46         Advanced front-end for dpkg
hi  build-essential           11.3           informational list of build-essent
ii  libc6                     2.3.6.ds1-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgmp3c2                 2:4.2.1+dfsg-4 Multiprecision arithmetic library

srcinst recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Message #15 received at 379783-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 366461-done@bugs.debian.org,366474-done@bugs.debian.org,379783-done@bugs.debian.org,629720-done@bugs.debian.org,

Cc: srcinst@packages.debian.org, srcinst@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#708032: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 06:39:44 +0000

Version: 0.8.10+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package srcinst has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see http://bugs.debian.org/708032

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

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