Bug#503303: etch -> lenny minimal chrrot upgrade fails due to Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop

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Subject: Bug#503303: etch -> lenny minimal chrrot upgrade fails due to Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop
From: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:40:38 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 20081024144038.GA10245@yellowpig>
Reply-to: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>, 503303@bugs.debian.org

Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: serious

Upgrading a clean minimal etch chroot to lenny fails with

  E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package tzdata due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
  E: Internal Error, Could not early remove tzdata

This is reproducible with piuparts.

This is on i386.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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