Bug#708831: upgrade-reports: [sid->sid] left system barely unusable (manually fixed with dpkg --install)

[Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:

> I don't think that debconf is relevant there. The problem is that the
> new python needs a new libc6 package, and thus if it is unpacked before
> libc6, it doesn't work anymore. This means that every python script on
> the system will fail (being called from a maintainer script or not),
> until the dependency is satisfied again.

That's basically what I experienced, as well.

vim (compiled with Python support on Debian) didn't work any more, I
had to fall back on nano.

I am just glad that dpkg and apt don't depend on Python ;)


Richard