On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 04:48:14PM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hi Steve,
> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:27:10AM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote: > >> recently, I've installed a new system with a minimal configuration. Then > >> I've imported my old package selection with dpkg --set-selections and run > >> apt-get dselect-upgrade. This replaced the mawk package by the gawk > >> package and installed some X package at the same time. > > <snip> > >> But x11-common and many other X packages use awk in their maintainer > >> scripts. > > <snip> > >> So, must these packages pre‐depend on awk? > > No, but I think we may have a bug in base-files here that no one's ever > > noticed before. > Should I send a bug report for base-files? I've reassigned the existing bug report. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]