[CASSANDRA-16478] Debian packages are broken since py3 migration

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-rc1, 4.0
• Component/s: Packaging
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Alexander Dejanovski
• Reporter: Alexander Dejanovski

Authors

Alexander Dejanovski

• Created: 03/Mar/21 10:29
• Updated: 05/Mar/21 14:58
• Resolved: 03/Mar/21 13:40

Description

Repair tests started to fail after the builds moved to Python3 in CASSANDRA-16396 due to deb packages failing to install on Ubuntu Bionic:

$ sudo dpkg -i cassandra_4.0~beta5-20210303git64f54f9fb0_all.deb
Selecting previously unselected package cassandra.
(Reading database ... 117650 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack cassandra_4.0~beta5-20210303git64f54f9fb0_all.deb ...
Unpacking cassandra (4.0~beta5-20210303git64f54f9fb0) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cassandra:
 cassandra depends on python (>= 3.6); however:
  Package python is not installed.
 cassandra depends on python3 (>= 3.7~); however:
  Version of python3 on system is 3.6.7-1~18.04.

It seems like the following requirements are not correct:

Depends: openjdk-8-jre-headless | java8-runtime, adduser, python (>= 3.6), ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}

I've changed this line to the following and got the deb packages to install correctly:

Depends: openjdk-8-jre-headless | java8-runtime, adduser, python3 (>= 3.6), ${misc:Depends}