Re: Please allow base-files 4.0.5 in lenny
Santiago Vila wrote:
> * Changed awk from Depends to Pre-Depends. Closes: #314571, #469552.
> This is required to make the awk virtual package to be truly essential,
> as only essential packages, their predependencies, and the dependencies
> of their predependencies are guaranteed to be "working at all times".
> Previously, the packaging system was allowed to remove an awk flavour
> and install another one in the middle of an upgrade, which may break
> packages using awk in their preinsts (and in fact, it happened).
> Tkanks a lot to Steve Langasek for clarifying this issue.
unblocked
Cheers
Luk
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