On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:44:31AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Marcus> dummy package and put them on alpha.gnu.org until dpkg is > Marcus> fixed. What do we need beside sysvinit? > > strace? > > (that way, the task-devel-common package will install)
I am afraid that this is a bit too much, who knows what other problems linger in the task packages, and one can quite nicely live without trying to install them. In this case I would like to ask you to first file a bug report and discuss a proper fix with the maintainer. When it won't get fixed for some time, but the issue is at least known to the responsible person, I am willing to add the work around dummy package. The distinction here is that the uninstallability of the task package is a bug in the task package itself, while the uninstallability of bsdutils and libstdc++2.10-dev is a bug in dpkg. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
