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

[Giovanni Rapagnani <rapagnani@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have been able to reproduce this issue. I have found two work around :

Solution 1:
  Upgrading apt before dist-upgrading i.e.:
    apt-get install apt
      Here it will complain with :
         "You are about to do something potentially harmful.
         To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' "
      But accepting to do so works well.
    then : apt-get dist-upgrade
    And the chroot gets upgraded to lenny.

  And tzdata is there and upgraded :
   root@gio-desktop:/# dpkg -s tzdata
   Package: tzdata
   Status: install ok installed
   Priority: required
   Section: libs
   Installed-Size: 6268
   Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
   Architecture: all
   Version: 2008h-2
   Replaces: libc0.1, libc0.3, libc6, libc6.1
   Provides: tzdata-lenny
   Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0
   Description: time zone and daylight-saving time data ...

Solution 2: (I found it by chance)
  Installing the etch 'locales' package before dist-upgrading to lenny works 
like a charm.

Giovanni.