Philipp Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem: Machines upgraded from Sarge to Etch won't get mktemp > pulled in, because nothing depends on essential packages. They won't > receive it later on, again out of the same reason. They are only pulled > into new installations, by (c)debootstrap, due to their priority and > their essential status. > > So some meta package needs to depend on those newly introduced essential > packages for one release (as we don't support skipping one anyway).
I wonder if it would make sense for base-files to pre-depend on new essential packages. It already pre-depends on awk to pull it into essential, and this seems like a related problem. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
