Re: potato's base is broken

[Sergio Brandano <sb@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>]

... some more details:

dselect -> Config reports:

>dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1
>Press RETURN to continue
preceded by a list of
>dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

apt-get -f install reports:

>The following extra packages will be installed:
>   slang1 libncurses4 libstdc++2.9 login passwd libreadlineg2
>The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   base-files adduser
>The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  (same list as for the extra packages)
>WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
>This should NOT be done ...
>  base-files


 Why is that?