On 2018-01-31 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote: > On 2018-01-30 Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> wrote: >> On 2018-01-30 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote: >>> reopen 888707 >>> retitle Make sure exim4-* are updated before, after, but not during, >>> locales. >>> thanks
>>> There turns out to be a race condition. >>> Please adjust the Dependencies to be sure exim4-* is updated before, after, >>> but not during, locales. >> [...] >> Afaik that is not possible. > https://askubuntu.com/questions/83553/what-is-the-difference-between-dependencies-and-pre-depends Let me rephrase this: exim4 does not require the locales package at all and therefore a dependency or pre-dependency on locale does not help for preventing co-installation with unconfigured locale. Also locale in sid does not show the problem: (sid)ametzler@argenau:~$ dpkg -l locales | tail -n1 ; env -u LC_ALL LC_CTYPE=C /bin/echo blah un locales <none> <none> (no description available) blah (sid)ametzler@argenau:~$ dpkg -l locales | tail -n1 ; env -u LC_ALL LC_CTYPE=C /bin/echo blah iU locales 2.26-6 all GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support] blah (sid)ametzler@argenau:~$ dpkg -l locales | tail -n1 ; env -u LC_ALL LC_CTYPE=C /bin/echo blah ii locales 2.26-6 all GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support] blah cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
