Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing "Obsolete" package base kills a system)

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

reopen 32888
reassign 32888 base-files

On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:03:27AM -0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > The base package doesn't exist any more for quite a long time, those first
> > time Debian user are most of them quite good and knows what to do to
> > correct this problem. Furthermore for those who can't, they simply have
> > to not remove the base package (which is guaranteed by its essential
> > flag)...  this bug deserves no more to be open.
> 
> I think we are closing bugs for the sake of it here. Any reason
> why the suggestion can't be implemented? (ie make base-files.postinst
> truncate base.list). OK it's not a very nice solution but there isn't
> a better one. I personally have nuked the base package and lost all
> my devices this way.

base-files will truncate base.list if it exists and will tell the user to
read README.base to remove this package safely (doing it automatically
would be an ugly hack).

Thanks.

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