On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
* Tim Woodall <debianb...@woodall.me.uk> [210221 15:28]:
I am unsure how debootstrap avoids the first problem - It could just be
down to luck that debootstrap configures base-passwd before passwd. grep
is Priority: required and Essential: yes so it could be argued that it
should be unpacked before attempting to configure passwd and so this
dependency is not required.
That is exactly the case. Both grep and base-passwd are Essential:
yes, so they _must_ function already (even when not configured yet).
Adding them to Depends: could be argued to be a bug.
The fundamental problem is actually that base-passwd is marked as
Essential but passwd required it to have run its postinst script.
Therefore the issue seems to be that base-passwd shouldn't be essential
at all.
