libpar-perl won't install on intrepid due to libfile-temp-perl (>= 0.05) dependency

[Dimitry Andric]

Binary package hint: libpar-perl

Attempting to installing libpar-perl (0.980-1) on intrepid gives:

$ sudo apt-get install libpar-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libpar-perl: Depends: libfile-temp-perl (>= 0.05)
E: Broken packages

It seems that in intrepid, libfile-temp-perl is provided by the perl-modules package, but it looks like this doesn't contain any version number. I've seen that in the jaunty version of this package, the libfile-temp-perl dependency has had its version number removed:

diff -Nru /tmp/gN3tZ7472W/libpar-perl-0.980/debian/control /tmp/D51uOGgGlB/libpar-perl-0.983/debian/control
--- libpar-perl-0.980/debian/control 2008-11-05 22:27:21.000000000 +0000
+++ libpar-perl-0.983/debian/control 2008-11-05 22:27:21.000000000 +0000
[...]
- libcompress-zlib-perl (>= 1.3), libfile-temp-perl (>= 0.05)
+ libcompress-zlib-perl (>= 1.3), libfile-temp-perl

Can you please change it for the intrepid package too?

Thanks!

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

This is now fixed in Jaunty, marking fixed for that release.

Thanks,

James

[Dimitry Andric (dimitry-andric)]

Can this simple fix also be backported to intrepid, please? The package is now unusable there...

[GiuseppeVerde (launchpad-digitasaru)]

No joke. It's broken in *intrepid* and the fix is a one-liner which won't break anything. Seriously, fix the bug.

[FriDisch (dumb-kane)]

It would really be nice, if you could fix this

[Dimitry Andric (dimitry-andric)]

Hi maintainer, can you please either apply the proposed fix to intrepid, or close the bug if you don't want or don't care about the fix? Then it won't keep cluttering the bug database at least...

Thanks.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

I have confirmed that the attached debdiff allows libpar-perl to install and work correctly. Please upload this as an Intrepid SRU update.

This fixed package is also available in my PPA <https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive>.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Marking Confirmed again. Since the bug specifies Intrepid in the subject, it is not fair to say that it is Fix Released, and I think that status is causing this open Intrepid SRU request to not be noticed.

I don’t have the bits to split the status into Intrepid and Jaunty and mark Fix Released for Jaunty, but someone else should feel free to do so.

[FriDisch (dumb-kane)]

I don't want to be importunate, but this is quite an essential module (at least for me and some people I know). And there obviously is an easy fix...

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Forgot to update the maintainer to Ubuntu MOTU Developers. Here is a new debdiff. Please upload this as an Intrepid SRU.

[Devid Antonio Filoni (d.filoni)]

motu-sru ACK.
Anders: in the changelog of your debdiff please change intrepid to intrepid-proposed and 0.980-1ubuntu1 to 0.980-1ubuntu0.1

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Here is the revised debdiff. Thanks.

[Devid Antonio Filoni (d.filoni)]

Uploaded.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into intrepid-proposed; please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

I tested the intrepid-proposed package, and it works for me.

[FriDisch (dumb-kane)]

Works for me too

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libpar-perl - 0.980-1ubuntu0.1

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libpar-perl (0.980-1ubuntu0.1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Unversion the libfile-temp-perl dependency. (LP: #295127)

 -- Anders Kaseorg <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:09:00 -0500