On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Steve Willer wrote: > >From a policy point of view, as far as I can tell, the bash failure is due > to a dpkg bug, isn't it? I'm not completely sure if it's readline or bash > that got removed, but my reading of the "Essential packages" section tells
It's a strange APT feature actually.. During one of the past release cycles we had to do this to deal with Perl or some such. It just wasn't supposed to happen for Essential Packages, that was a bug that has been fixed. Jason