On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 16:36:42 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: [...] > For example, your interpretation would force base-passwd to lose its > essential flag, because it can't provide its core functionality only > when in unpacked state. Then, according to policy, base-files and > *every* other package using any of the system users in any of its > maintainer scripts would have to add a "Depends: base-passwd", since > they depend on functionality which is only available after base-passwd > has been configured. >
Yes, indeed this is what I'd infer from policy. But I could easily be wrong. > Frankly, I don't think that's what we want. > I would say that at least we do not want this at this point in the release cycle as it appears be bear way too many risks. Admittedly, all that *I* want is a working debootstrap, so I'm also ok just having the changes in base-files for now (or maybe also in debootstrap). Best, Michael
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