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Re: Woody/testing problem



On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:13:37PM -0800, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
> after simulating an apt-get dist-upgrade to
> woody/testing.  apt-get issued the following warning:
> 
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be
> removed
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what
> you are doing!
>   sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit)
> 
> are these warnings benign?  are these packages no
> longer needed woody?  please adivse.

FWIW, I have these, and they're labelled Essential and Required ... so I
don't think that those warnings are benign. I cannot suggest why they
happen or anything, just that on my sid system, these packages are still
very important ...

Hugo van der Merwe



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