Bug#806422: apt: no longer handles mutually-exclusive sets of essential packages well

[Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, David Kalnischkies wrote:

> Essentials have to be installed, so you just can't have mutually-
> exclusive essentials in any supportable capacity.

Of course Essentials have to be installed, but even in
Debian it’s possible to have transitions of Essential
packages e.g. from one release to the other, and for
as long as you have both in the sources.list…

Can’t you just priorise the installed one higher?

Otherwise: would it “fix” the issue if dash-mksh were
to ship a preferences.d/ file pinning dash down to -1?

bye,
//mirabilos
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