severity 208874 wishlist retitle 208874 does not handle udebs thanks On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:28:25PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Matt Zimmerman] > > Why do you have udeb sources in sources.list? apt doesn't deal with > > udebs; they are only used by debian-installer. > > I needed some libraries from that source once. Not sure if that is > the case any more. > > As I said, I'm not sure who is to blame here, but found it strange > that apt tries to both upgrade libc6 and install libc-udeb as a new > package. You should never need to install udebs on an installed system, and I don't think that apt even tries to handle them intelligently. If it did, it should probably treat them like experimental and never install them unless explicitly requested. -- - mdz
