Debian Bug report logs - #548848
Perl fails to upgrade "Could not perform immediate configuration"

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

From: Sebastian Dröge <slomo@circular-chaos.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Perl fails to upgrade "Could not perform immediate configuration"

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:28:23 +0200

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Package: perl
Version: 5.10.1-3
Severity: grave

Hi,
perl fails to upgrade to 5.10.1-3

[...]
After this operation, 4096kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on perl

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Message #10 received at 548848@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: 548848@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Perl fails to upgrade "Could not perform immediate configuration"

Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:17:32 -0700

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reassign 548848 debhelper
thanks

The problem here is that liblocale-gettext-perl, which is transitively
essential, now pre-depends: perl instead of perl-base.  This is a behavior
change in dh_perl from debhelper; it now causes all perl-using packages to
depend on perl, when for /usr/bin/perl perl-base should be sufficient.

Since the perl/perl-base split exists /for the benefit of/ the essential
closure, this needs to be fixed in either debhelper or, if debhelper's
behavior is for some reason considered correct, in liblocale-gettext-perl
(by overriding debhelper).

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek@ubuntu.com                                     vorlon@debian.org

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Message #19 received at 548848@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>

To: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, 548848@bugs.debian.org

Cc: perl@packages.debian.org, liblocale-gettext-perl@packages.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#548848: Perl fails to upgrade "Could not perform immediate configuration"

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:39:00 +0300

reassign 548848 liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-5
thanks

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:17:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> reassign 548848 debhelper
> thanks
> 
> The problem here is that liblocale-gettext-perl, which is transitively
> essential, now pre-depends: perl instead of perl-base.  This is a behavior
> change in dh_perl from debhelper; it now causes all perl-using packages to
> depend on perl, when for /usr/bin/perl perl-base should be sufficient.
> 
> Since the perl/perl-base split exists /for the benefit of/ the essential
> closure, this needs to be fixed in either debhelper or, if debhelper's
> behavior is for some reason considered correct, in liblocale-gettext-perl
> (by overriding debhelper).

Thanks Steve.

This broke only recently with liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-5 which
switched to the 'debhelper 7 tiny rules' and lost the dh_perl '-d'
option as a side effect.

I don't think debhelper is to blame here, so reassigning again.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org

Message #30 received at 548848@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

To: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>

Cc: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, 548848@bugs.debian.org, perl@packages.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#548848: Perl fails to upgrade "Could not perform immediate configuration"

Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:31:38 +0200

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Since the perl/perl-base split exists /for the benefit of/ the essential
> > closure, this needs to be fixed in either debhelper or, if debhelper's
> > behavior is for some reason considered correct, in liblocale-gettext-perl
> > (by overriding debhelper).
> 
> Thanks Steve.
> 
> This broke only recently with liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-5 which
> switched to the 'debhelper 7 tiny rules' and lost the dh_perl '-d'
> option as a side effect.
> 
> I don't think debhelper is to blame here, so reassigning again.

Indeed, I just uploaded a fixed package. Thanks for the report.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

Message #35 received at 548848-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

To: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>

Cc: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, 548848-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#548848: Perl fails to upgrade "Could not perform immediate configuration"

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:41:18 +0200

Version: 1.05-6

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > > Since the perl/perl-base split exists /for the benefit of/ the essential
> > > closure, this needs to be fixed in either debhelper or, if debhelper's
> > > behavior is for some reason considered correct, in liblocale-gettext-perl
> > > (by overriding debhelper).
> > 
> > Thanks Steve.
> > 
> > This broke only recently with liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-5 which
> > switched to the 'debhelper 7 tiny rules' and lost the dh_perl '-d'
> > option as a side effect.
> > 
> > I don't think debhelper is to blame here, so reassigning again.
> 
> Indeed, I just uploaded a fixed package. Thanks for the report.

Closing it now, as I closed the bug affected to perl with my upload (by
mistake).

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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