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Bug#316217: libc6 - please loose dpkg assertion in preinst



Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
Severity: wishlist

Please remove the dpkg assertion from the preinst script.

Reasons (from the base-passwd changelog):
| - the 'dpkg --assert-support-predepends' check isn't guaranteed to be
|   effective anyway (it tests the current version of dpkg on the system,
|   not the one that's performing the upgrade);
| - dpkg has supported Pre-Depends since 1996;
| - it unnecessarily required dpkg to have been configured when running
|   base-passwd.preinst (#316084).

Bastian

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