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

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

tags 503303 -moreinfo -unreproducible
thanks
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:15:39PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> tags 503303 moreinfo unreproducible
> thanks
> 
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 04:40:38PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How do you define "minimal" for this purpose?
> 
> What command did you run for the upgrade?
> 
> Creating a minimal etch i386 chroot with debootstrap and upgrading with
> 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I'm not able to reproduce this.  Nor am I able to
> reproduce it using one of my configured build chroots (i.e., with
> build-essential and some extras installed).

Well you can reproduce it with

piuparts -a -d etch -d lenny gnupg
...
  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

thought I hit it some other ways before.

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

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