Bug#806422: apt: no longer handles mutually-exclusive sets of essential packages well

2015-11-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Transitioning from one essential package to another involves some > packages depending on them, which decide this matter – which is your No, that cannot be, unversioned Depends on Essential packages are a Policy violation. Though I admittedly

Bug#806422: apt: no longer handles mutually-exclusive sets of essential packages well

2015-11-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
Control: reopen -1 Control: tags -1 - pending Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 deal with mutually-exclusive essential package sets # wrong bug number in commit message… On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:43:43AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > I just got upgraded… > | Unpacking apt (1.1)

Bug#806422: apt: no longer handles mutually-exclusive sets of essential packages well

2015-11-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Essentials have to be installed, so you just can't have mutually- > exclusive essentials in any supportable capacity. Of course Essentials have to be installed, but even in Debian it’s possible to have transitions of Essential packages e.g. from

Bug#806422: apt: no longer handles mutually-exclusive sets of essential packages well

2015-11-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 05:18:13PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > > Essentials have to be installed, so you just can't have mutually- > > exclusive essentials in any supportable capacity. > > Of course Essentials have to be installed, but even

Bug#806422: apt: no longer handles mutually-exclusive sets of essential packages well

2015-11-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: apt Version: 1.1 Severity: normal I just got upgraded… | Unpacking apt (1.1) over (1.0.10.2) ... … and now, a dist-upgrade has a regression. Background story: I created a package dash-mksh that contains a (versioned, due to the versioned dependency of bash on dash) Provides for dash,