Ubuntu
upstart package

pre depends loop

Bug #527722 reported by Robert Collins on 2010-02-25

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	upstart (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Scott James Remnant (Canonical)

Bug Description

Binary package hint: upstart

udev depends on upstart-job
upstart[provides upstart-job] predepends on mountall
mountall depends on udev

The problem is that:
mountall won't configure until udev configures
udev won't configure until upstart is installed
upstart won't unpack until mountall is configured

and around we go.

This is starting from hardy, so it won't show up with less ancient machines, I suspect.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 25 22:53:40 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: upstart 0.6.5-3
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=la_AU.utf8
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=la_AU.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: upstart
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic x86_64

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2010-02-25:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote on 2010-02-25:

Upstart doesn't need to use Pre-Depends, demoting back to Depends turns this into an ordinary Depends loop, which is ok

Changed in upstart (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Committed
importance:	Undecided → Medium
assignee:	nobody → Scott James Remnant (scott)

Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) on 2010-02-25

tags:

added: iso-testing

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-02-26:

This bug was fixed in the package upstart - 0.6.5-4

---------------
upstart (0.6.5-4) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - change Pre-Depends back to Depends, this was a holdover from when we
      attempted to make Upstart Essential to solve early sysvinit→upstart
      upgrade issues, we backed out the Essential bit but never the use of
      Pre-Depends. LP: #527722.
    - add versioned-dependencies on ifupdown for loopback fix that can
      prevent initscripts from being run. LP: #527830.

* Merge patches from trunk to use /proc/self/fd instead of /dev/fd, and
to always mount /proc and /sys on boot.
-- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:40:58 +0000