Bug#663939: cyrus-common-2.2: please add Depends: db4.7-util, db5.1-util to the transitional package

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi Andreas,

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 07:29, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
> Package: cyrus-common-2.2
> Version: 2.4.13-1
> Severity: normal
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
>
>
> Hi,
>
> while doing upgrade tests squeeze -> wheezy with piuparts I noticed that
> upgrading the cyrus packages failed because the database upgrade could
> not be performed as dbX.Y-util were missing. Even after enabling
> installation of Recommends (which is disabled by default in piuparts),
> db4.7-util was missing.

It shouldn't fail even with missing tools. Do you have a installation log file
for the failure?

> Since the transitional cyrus-*-2.2 packages are most likely
> installed/upgraded on old installations only that will need to perform a
> database upgrade during the dist-upgrade step, adding Depends for the
> extra tools needed in that case seems sensible to me.

Yes, but they depend on cyrus-common-2.4, which depend on cyrus-common,
so only cyrus-common is needed.

> What about adding an extra package like 'cyrus-upgrade' that depends on
> the tools needed to perform a database upgrade? This could be installed
> by the admin to ensure that there are always the right tools available
> in case of a dist-upgrade.

How does that differ from having the packages to depend on the right tools?

I have changed cyrus-common to Depend on db-util which should always pull
up-to-date libdb package utilities and I think that should be enough.

Ondrej
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