reopen 32888 reassign 32888 base-files On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:03:27AM -0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > The base package doesn't exist any more for quite a long time, those first > > time Debian user are most of them quite good and knows what to do to > > correct this problem. Furthermore for those who can't, they simply have > > to not remove the base package (which is guaranteed by its essential > > flag)... this bug deserves no more to be open. > > I think we are closing bugs for the sake of it here. Any reason > why the suggestion can't be implemented? (ie make base-files.postinst > truncate base.list). OK it's not a very nice solution but there isn't > a better one. I personally have nuked the base package and lost all > my devices this way. base-files will truncate base.list if it exists and will tell the user to read README.base to remove this package safely (doing it automatically would be an ugly hack). Thanks. -- "1e14fb9158b36d0960a96eb7a4010223" (a truly random sig)
