On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:26:33PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> There are three other essential packages in unstable which depend on
> libc6 without using a Pre-Depends, namely base-passwd_3.2.1,
> hostname_2.08 and ncurses-bin_5.2.20010318-2.
>
> If there are not objections I'm going to report serious bugs about them too.
> (We don't want another mess like the perl upgrade to happen, do we?)
Sounds sensible.
Are you sure this is the cause of the perl upgrade mess though? Apt tries
to immediately configure essential packages wherever possible, afaik, which
means Depends: generally end up the same as Pre-Depends: anyway, no?
Cheers,
aj
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