Thanks. Though, I'm afraid I jumped to a wrong conclusion from 'apt-cache depends libuuid1' claiming to replace e2fsprogs without showing the version caveat. It's now clearer that my problem comes up in Devuan beowulf but not in Debian buster, and as you already pointed out, this particular thing is rather a non-issue.
Ralph. Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote on 3/8/19 1:46 am: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:09:03PM +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: >> Well, >> >> when I then "agt-get install libuuid1:i386" (on this multiarch) >> I get advice about a page full of packages to be removed, and the >> following (plus a bit more): >> --- >> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. >> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! >> e2fsprogs libblkid1 (due to e2fsprogs) libuuid1 (due to e2fsprogs) fdisk >> libfdisk1 (due to fdisk) libmount1 (due to fdisk) init >> sysvinit-core (due to init) mount util-linux (due to mount) sysvinit-utils >> ---- > > What version of e2fsprogs did you have on the system at that time? > > - Ted >
