[Parted-maintainers] Bug#587570: Analysis

[Otavio Salvador]

clone 587570 -1
reassign -1 util-linux
retitle -1 Wrong shlibs information
priority -1 important
thanks

Hello,

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm at cyrius.com> wrote:
> libparted0-udeb_2.2-7 udeb has Depends: libblkid1-udeb (>= 2.16)
> However, it requires 2.17
>
> alpha1 includes this in the netboot image: libblkid1-udeb 2.16.2-0
> So parted_devices is run with the wrong libblkid1-udeb installed
> and only _after_ parted_devices is run, some other udev pulls
> in the new 2.17 libblkid1-udeb and then parted_devies works.

The cause of parted not having the right depends is due util-linux
packages to provide the symbols and shlibs files. The later gives the
wrong information since it is hardcoded to 2.16 while 2.17 is the
newest one. The right solution from my POV is to use the symbols only
and drop the shlibs.

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