Bug#50411: debconf should be upgraded first.
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.14
Severity: critical
Hello.
I think apt-get upgrade should make upgrading debconf a high priority,
higher than most other packages. I have seen three times, on two different
computers, apt-get upgrade fail because a certain package must have
pre-depended on a certain version of debconf, without actually specifying
the Predepend: debconf (>>x.xx). The error messages are non-intuitive at the
least.
Since Predepend: is seen as a necessary evil, I would suggest trying to
install debconf before most other packages, or all other packages if it is
possible to do so.
Of course, I don't much care one way or the other how it gets fixed, but
this seems to be something that must get fixed, either through apt or
through debconf or by submitting bugreports to the packages to ask them to
specify a Predepends: line in the control file, or an NMU on all such
packages to add that line.
Thanks. :)
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