Bug#60449: base.tgz doesnt contain suidmanager which causes e.g. pppd to fail installation

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

severity 60449 fixed
thanks

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:01:03PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 2.2.8
> Severity: critical
> 
> Hi,
> it seems the base2_2.tgz doesnt contain the suidmanager which
> causes pppd to fail installation during the normal path

> Prepareing to replace ppp 2.3.11-1.1 (using .../ppp_2.3.11-1.2_i386.deb)
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: suidunregister: command not found
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ppp_2.3.11-1.2_i386.deb
> 
> This is while installing via network (Initial install from
> beta iso images from ftp.kando.hu based on boot-floppies 2.2.8)

This was due to an oversight in ppp package preinst. ppp doesn't depend
on suidmanager.

Funny, someone actually managed to build broken boot-floppies in those
24 hours while ppp was broken.

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