doc-base fails to handle perl-base having been upgraded but libuuid-perl not

[Steve Langasek]

daily dist-upgrade in precise fails because perl is in an inconsistent state.

Processing triggers for doc-base ...
/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/UUID/UUID.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr
dpkg: error processing doc-base (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127

I also see other errors earlier in the upgrade:

Preparing to replace libxml-libxml-perl 1.88+dfsg-1 (using .../libxml-libxml-perl_1.88+dfsg-1build1_amd64.deb) ...
Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/XML/SAX.pm line 15.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/XML/SAX.pm line 15.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/update-perl-sax-parsers line 18.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/update-perl-sax-parsers line 18.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.
Unpacking replacement libxml-libxml-perl ...

Missing versioned Breaks or something?

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: doc-base 0.10.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-3.3-generic 3.1.0
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.26-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 16 09:06:54 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: doc-base
Title: package doc-base 0.10.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (7 days ago)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The libxml-libxml-perl problem is:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=625771

Niko says of that: "It's ugly, but I don't think it actually breaks anything".

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I've sent a possible patch to the Debian bug report. It needs review and could use coordination, so I'm not going to upload it to Ubuntu just yet.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Synced:

doc-base (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * DocBaseFile.pm: Ignore temporary/backup files in both /usr/share/doc-base
     and /etc/doc-base/documents (closes: #623169).
   * Update German translations (closes: #624345).
   * Update French translations (closes: #627284).
   * debian/control:
     + Add VCS fields;
     + Standards-Version: 3.9.2 (no changes).

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:40:55 +0200

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Er, sorry, that was the wrong changelog entry. What I meant to paste was:

doc-base (0.10.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/postinst: set PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 not to fail when perl is being
    upgraded (closes: #648937).
  * install-docs.in:
    + show verbose warning message when doc-base is not fully functional;
    + drop the force-reregister file also when install-docs -C is called.
  * debian/control: Fix Vcs-Browser field.

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:19:09 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

perl (5.14.2-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update versioned Breaks for dual-lived modules with updates in
    5.14.2 (libmodule-corelist-perl, libencode-perl)
  * Update versioned Breaks for doc-base to << 0.10.3; this version
    improves the resilience of the postinst during a major perl upgrade
    (Closes: #648954)

 -- Dominic Hargreaves <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:29:20 +0000