# unconfuse myself unmerge 255969 quit Hi,
David Kalnischkies wrote: >> Brian Frank wrote: >>> -When running dist-upgrade from stable to testing, many of the important >>> files in /bin disappeared. I found that they were provided by the >>> "fileutils" package in stable, but by the "coreutils" package in testing. >>> Without some of these files (mv, ln, mkdir, etc), the dist-upgrade came to >>> a screeching halt. > > I can't imagine a circumstance in which this could have happened. Sounds good to me. :) I was just reading through the merged bugs; this one is from June, 2004 and I doubt the problem still exists (though I suppose masochistic types can always try to recreate the upgrade from that date). > The only very very very wild wild guess is something like the fixed #590438 > in which the essential is removed too early Yes, it's possible. Anyway, this bug seems past the point of debuggability, so I'll close it with my next message. > If any version in any repository is essential then the package is essential. > So for APT a package can only 'loose' its essential flag if you remove > the archive in which the package is marked as essential. Sounds sensible to me. The only edge case I can think of is if someone has a repository listed in sources.list and does not have any packages installed from it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org