Bug#501855: upgrade-reports: initscripts Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop
clone 501855 -1
reassign -1 initscripts, insserv
severity -1 important
thanks
On 2008-10-11 14:54 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Thanks, now I see that there is indeed a dependency loop: the lenny
> version of initscripts conflicts with the etch version of insserv and
> vice versa, so apt has to remove one of these packages before the other
> one can be unpacked. The bug is that it chooses the wrong package,
> namely the required package initscripts instead of the optional insserv.
Reassigning a copy of this bug to the affected packages.
> A possible solution would be for insserv to depend on a recent version
> of initscripts instead of conflicting against older versions, thus
> breaking the dependency loop. Insserv maintainers, what do you think?
If that isn't done, the insserv package must be removed on upgrades,
which will not be a good user experience and may break a lot of things
(see #475478).
Sven
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