Re: problems in upgrade
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> 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?
Don't know, ask Jason :-)
In either case, we should not rely on apt being used by everybody.
The user should not be able to screw the system by using dpkg-ftp, or
even dpkg on the command line, so the Pre-Depends thing is a must anyway.
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