On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:10:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:10:36PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > To elaborate a bit, the reason why this affects users upgrading from
> > woody even if they haven't done anything strange to their system is that
> > if they attempt to upgrade to a sarge kernel-image first, the sarge
> > kernel-image packages depend on mkvmlinuz, which ships
> > /etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/mkvmlinuz scripts; thus, kernel-image tries
> > to run 'run-parts -v' without them doing anything funny to their system,
> > and without an appropriate versioned dependency on debianutils being
> > declared.
> > 
> > s/-v/--verbose/g certainly seems like the simplest fix.
> 
> Could i also add a versioned dependency in the kernel-images to the first
> version of debian-utils to have the -v option ? This would mean uploading two
> full kernel-images (2.4.27 and 2.6.8) and thus probably around a full 24 hours
> of builds and uploads.

You could, but if you're going to upload anyway you might as well just
use --verbose rather than further complicating the dependency graph.

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Colin Watson                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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