Bug#556945: libc-bin: getent is used in postinst (in other packages) before it is working
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:54:29PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> Package: libc-bin
> Version: 2.10.1-7
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Can break upgrade
>
> Hi,
>
> I just tried to upgrade an unstable system (that has not been upgraded for
> several months). The upgrade fails due to postinst scripts trying to use
> getent. It seems to me that the problem is that getent is upgraded but not yet
> working because the new libc6 is not yet unpacked.
> I reported this bug against libc-bin but I'm not sure it must be here.
> I saw that libc-bin does not depends on libc6 (perhaps to avoid circular
> dependencies). However, there is a problem that need to be fixed.
Yes, there is no depends as it breaks apt-get (though dpkg is able to
handle it).
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