Bug#188161: hits again
Matt wrote:
> # So far I I don't think that this has a major effect on apt's usability
> severity 188161 normal
Hm, so far that prevents me from deploying my configuration, so I still feel
this is a problem with higher priority than normal - but well, let's not
play severity wars on this...
> This is definitely a little weird. Why do you have so many dependencies on
> essential packages? Can you try removing all of the essential packages from
> this list? e.g., base-files, base-passwd, bash, debianutils, dpkg, etc.
Ah yes. This list was originally generated from "dpkg --get-selections",
and although I already cleaned it up a bit, there are cleaning directions
that I did not use yet - thanks for pointing out this one.
> This will at least clean things up and perhaps make it easier to see what is
> happening, and I suppose it might affect the problem as well and help to
> narrow it down. Especially when you turn on some debugging to find out what
> is happening. If the problem is still there when you remove the essential
> packages, remove things one by one until you find a smaller set of packages
> which exhibits the problem.
I'll do that when I'm back to work - I'll be on vacation until next Tuesday.
Regards,
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