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Re: Conflict in Lenny installer



On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 06:12:36PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Brendan M. [Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:04:07 +1100]:

> > Hello, I have created an installer using debian-installer to install
> > Lenny directly from the repositories.  mlocate recently became
> > 'standard' but conflicts with findutils, which is a required package
> > in Lenny.

> Thanks, we just became aware of this today. It is expected that it'll be
> fixed by tomorrow, since we're letting the new findutils migrate early
> to testing.

> > Is there something wrong with the migration scripts?

> Maybe. Probably this is a corner case that hasn't been exercised much in
> the past.

Yes, technically each of the packages in testing are still individually
installable - I guess britney doesn't special-case Essential packages.

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