Re: Please allow base-files 4.0.5 in lenny

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

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