On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Tim Woodall wrote:
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.
Hi Chris,
As per my other message I think there is a bug, but it's not in this
package. However if there is a bug it's possibly in the wording of the
debian policy on essential packages which is somewhat vague about
bootstraping a virgin system.
I've now inspected debootstrap and it handles this case by having an
explicit ordering on how it configures the first seven packages
independent of any explicit or implicit dependencies.
So go ahead and close this bug rather than reassign it to base-passwd.
I've taken the discussion to debian-devel.
Actually it should be consolidated into 924401 as that's exactly the
same bug.
Regards,
Tim.
