Debian Bug report logs - #545852
aide-common has circular Depends on aide

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

From: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>

To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: aide-common has circular Depends on aide

Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:49:56 +0200

Package: aide-common
Version: 0.13.1-11
Severity: important

Hello Aide Maintainers,

There is a circular dependency between aide-common and aide:

aide-common 	:Depends: aide | aide-binary
aide 	        :Depends: aide-common (= 0.13.1-11)

Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade,
so we should try to get rid of them.

Since aide-common is a data package, it is quite likely it does not need
actually to depend on aide and removing this dependency would
remove the circular dependency, so I would suggest you do so.

See threads 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02111.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg01101.html

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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Message #10 received at 545852@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

To: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>, 545852@bugs.debian.org, 545852-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

Subject: Re: Bug#545852: aide-common has circular Depends on aide

Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:27:07 +0100

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:49:56PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> There is a circular dependency between aide-common and aide:
> 
> aide-common 	:Depends: aide | aide-binary
> aide 	        :Depends: aide-common (= 0.13.1-11)
> 
> Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade,

As the aide packages have been like this for at least two stable
releases, and I haven't heard of any problems, I'd like to know more
about the possible evil things that could happen.

The aide binary packages do not have any maintainer scripts, so the
only thing important is that the binary package is present and
_unpacked_ before aide-common is configured. afaik, dpkg breaks
circular dependencies at the package that doesn't have maintainer
scripts and will thus do the right thing with aide.

Removing aide-common's dependency on any aide binary package would
mean changing all scripts to gracefully handle the (senseless) case
where aide-common is installed without any aide binary package. I'd
rather avoid that additional complexity.

For the time being, I'm tempted to tag this bug wontfix unless
somebody explains to me what could happen and why it didn't already
happen in a past release.

Greetings
Marc

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Message #18 received at 545852@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>

To: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

Cc: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>, 545852@bugs.debian.org, 545852-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#545852: aide-common has circular Depends on aide

Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:12:50 +0100

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:27:07PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:49:56PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > There is a circular dependency between aide-common and aide:
> > 
> > aide-common 	:Depends: aide | aide-binary
> > aide 	        :Depends: aide-common (= 0.13.1-11)
> > 
> > Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade,
> 
> As the aide packages have been like this for at least two stable
> releases, and I haven't heard of any problems, I'd like to know more
> about the possible evil things that could happen.
> 
> The aide binary packages do not have any maintainer scripts, so the
> only thing important is that the binary package is present and
> _unpacked_ before aide-common is configured. afaik, dpkg breaks
> circular dependencies at the package that doesn't have maintainer
> scripts and will thus do the right thing with aide.

As far as I know, dpkg will stop caring about other Depends in
other packages too and might cause other packages to fail to
install while they do have the proper depends.


Kurt

Message #26 received at 545852@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

To: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>

Cc: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>, 545852@bugs.debian.org, 545852-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#545852: aide-common has circular Depends on aide

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:34:56 +0200

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:12:50PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> As far as I know, dpkg will stop caring about other Depends in
> other packages too and might cause other packages to fail to
> install while they do have the proper depends.

I guess that's a bug in dpkg then.

Greetings
Marc

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Message #36 received at 545852-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>

To: 545852-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#545852: fixed in aide 0.15.1-6

Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:02:16 +0000

Source: aide
Source-Version: 0.15.1-6

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
aide, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

aide-common_0.15.1-6_all.deb
  to main/a/aide/aide-common_0.15.1-6_all.deb
aide-dynamic_0.15.1-6_amd64.deb
  to main/a/aide/aide-dynamic_0.15.1-6_amd64.deb
aide-xen_0.15.1-6_amd64.deb
  to main/a/aide/aide-xen_0.15.1-6_amd64.deb
aide_0.15.1-6.debian.tar.gz
  to main/a/aide/aide_0.15.1-6.debian.tar.gz
aide_0.15.1-6.dsc
  to main/a/aide/aide_0.15.1-6.dsc
aide_0.15.1-6_amd64.deb
  to main/a/aide/aide_0.15.1-6_amd64.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 545852@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com> (supplier of updated aide package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:46:28 +0200
Source: aide
Binary: aide aide-xen aide-dynamic aide-common
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 0.15.1-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Aide Maintainers <pkg-aide-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>
Description: 
 aide       - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary
 aide-common - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - Common files
 aide-dynamic - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - dynamic binary
 aide-xen   - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary for XEN
Closes: 545852 631398
Changes: 
 aide (0.15.1-6) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * lowered dependency on aide-common (closes: #545852):
     - aide, aide-xen, aide-dynamic:
       - moved aide-common from Depends to Recommends
       - added Breaks/Replaces: aide-common (<< 0.15.1-6)
     - moved aide.1 and aide.conf.5 from aide-common to binary packages
     - aide-common: replaced dependency on aide | aide-binary with
       versionised dependency on aide | aide-xen | aide-dynamic
   * debian/patches/06-conf_yacc.y_conftext_declaration_fix.dpatch: new
     - fixed broken 'Error in expression' message (closes: #631398)
   * 31_aide_lighttpd:
     - adjusted log file rules
   * 31_aide_postgresql:
     - handle moved pgstat.stat file
   * 31_aide_resolvconf:
     - extended rule for files in /@@{LIBINITRW}/resolvconf/interface/
   * 31_aide_cron-apt:
     - adjusted rule for files in mailchanges/
   * 31_aide_initramfs-tools: new
     - handle /@@{DEVDOT}initramfs
   * 31_aide_util-linux: new
     - handle utab file and mount dir
   * 31_aide_xdm: new
     - handle auth files
     - handle pid file
   * 31_aide_libvirt-bin:
     - handle .monitor files
     - handle /var/lib/libvirt
     - handle /@@{RUNLOCK}/libvirt-guests
     - handle /@@{RUN}/libvirt/uml-guest
   * 31_aide_laptop-mode-tools:
     - handle lock files
     - handle state-brightness-command and nolm-mountopts state file
   * 31_aide_munin,31_aide_munin-nodes:
     - /var/www/munin has been moved to /var/cache/munin/www
   * 70_aide_run:
     - handle /@@{RUNLOCK}/.ramfs
   * removed optional aide-config-zg2 package
   * debian/aide-common.prerm: removed (/usr/doc/ handling is obsolete)
   * Migrated to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format:
     - converted dpatch patches to quilt
     - use dh7 syntax
     - use dh-autoreconf
     - removed debian/aide_fixperms (not needed anymore)
     - removed build-dep on dpatch
     - set debian/compat to 7
     - build depend on debhelper >= 7.0.50~ and dh-autoreconf
   * debian/patches/07-db_file.c_missing_format_string_fix.patch: new
     - added missing format string in dofprintf calls
   * Switched to debhelper 9
     - set debian/compat to 9
     - build depend on debhelper >= 9
   * aide.conf.in:
     - added X group and use it instead of 'acl+xattrs+e2fsattrs_SELINUX_'
     - fixed typo in comment
     - removed I from HiSerMemberLog
   * Moved aide.conf.in back to aide.conf and adjusted debian/rules
   * debian/control:
     - removed build-dep on libgcrypt11-dev (not needed anymore)
     - adjusted URLs of Vcs-* fields
     - removed pointer to configuration from description of binary packages
     - bumped to Standards-Version 3.9.3 (no changes necessary)
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