Bug#501866: Missing dependancy - libpango1.0-common.prerm uses defoma-app in pkg defoma

[Higgins, Paul]

I'm not sure where the problem lies.  I saw that the packages that couldn't find File/Copy.pm seemed to have their dependencies correct, but apt and dpkg still allowed perl-modules to break it.  The one package I checked closely because it broke the install, libtiff4, doesn't seem to depend on doc-base as it should.  

It seems like there must be some way to make sure the unpack, etc. for package perl-modules 5.10.x either leaves the 5.8.x tree alone, or waits until it is no longer needed to remove it.

Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Josselin Mouette [mailto:joss at debian.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 04:36
To: Higgins, Paul; 501866 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#501866: Missing dependancy - libpango1.0-common.prerm uses defoma-app in pkg defoma

Le vendredi 10 octobre 2008 à 22:24 -0400, Paul Higgins a écrit :
> The prerm  or postrm scripts for these packages use either
> /usr/bin/defoma-app or /usr/sbin/install-docs (in packages defoma and
> doc-base).  Those in turn reference files in perl-modules already 
> removed, causing libtiff4 to abort the install.  In summary:
> 
>    fontconfig.prerm, libpango1.prerm, and libwmf0.2-7.postrm
>    all invoke /usr/bin/defoma-app; which needs File/Copy.pm
>    from perl-modules.  It was able to continue using the prerm
>    script from the new package.
> 
>    libpng12-0.prerm, libtiff4.prerm, base-passwd.postinst,
>    cupsys.prerm, and shared-mime-info.prerm invoke
>    /usr/sbin/install-docs which needs Pod/Usage.pm from perl-modules.

What exactly are we supposed to change in those packages? They either
correctly depend on defoma (for defoma-app) or check that install-docs
is here before launching it.

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