Bug#501855: upgrade-reports: initscripts Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop
reassign 501855 aptitude
thanks
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:02:45PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> reassign 501855 apt 0.7.14
> thanks
> Hm, that looks fairly normal. Probably it would work if you upgrade
> initscripts before the full-upgrade. However, it does not explain why
> apt wanted to temporarily remove initscripts in the first place. This
> looks like a bug in apt, reassigning.
No, it's only aptitude which tries to remove the essential package on
dist-upgrade. Installing insserv in etch, switching sources.list to lenny,
and running 'apt-get dist-upgrade', apt has no problem calculating the
upgrade correctly.
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