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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