Your message dated Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:59:12 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line base mess has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 4 Feb 1999 18:58:47 +0000 Received: (qmail 31359 invoked from network); 4 Feb 1999 18:58:47 -0000 Received: from mueata-e1-wan053.citykom.de (HELO khms.westfalen.de) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 4 Feb 1999 18:58:47 -0000 Received: from kai by khms.westfalen.de with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 108Tz9-0000KY-00 (Debian); Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:58:43 +0100 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: base: Removing "Obsolete" package base kills a system To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: bug 3.1.7 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:58:43 +0100 Package: base Version: N/A Severity: critical I've said this for a long time. Now I've actually seen it happen. When the old "base" package was replaced by "base-files" and friends, we left a disaster waiting to happen: the old "base" package would remain, containing those files not migrated to the newer packages. I have no exact list, but it definitely includes *all* the basic devices. Dselect will now list "base" as "Obsolete or local". This encourages people to remove it. If they remove base, they will lose most of their devices, rendering the system practically unusable (and only fixable for experienced *nix people if you realize what happens as long as you still have a root shell). If you need more details how this actually happened, mail Jutta Wrage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Fix Proposal: have base-files or similar zero out /var/lib/dpkg/info/base.list. -- System Information Debian Release: 2.1 Kernel Version: Linux khms.westfalen.de 2.0.36 #2 Thu Dec 31 17:38:15 CET 1998 i486 unknown --------------------------------------- Received: (at 32888-done) by bugs.debian.org; 26 Mar 2000 09:59:14 +0000 Received: (qmail 6060 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2000 09:59:13 -0000 Received: from i511.resi.insa-lyon.fr (HELO k6.resI.insa-lyon.fr) (134.214.164.9) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 26 Mar 2000 09:59:13 -0000 Received: by k6.resI.insa-lyon.fr (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 541994045; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:59:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:59:12 +0200 From: Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: base mess Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i The base package doesn't exist any more for quite a long time, those first time Debian user are most of them quite good and knows what to do to correct this problem. Furthermore for those who can't, they simply have to not remove the base package (which is guaranteed by its essential flag)... this bug deserves no more to be open. Cheers, -- Raphaėl Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ <pub> CD Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd Formations Linux et logiciels libres : http://www.logidee.com </pub>