El 13/12/12 18:12, Helmut Grohne escribió:
Package: base-files
Version: 7.0
Severity: normal
User: [email protected]
Usertags: multiarch

The base-files package is depended upon by a number of other tools such
as rsync. Those dependencies are mostly versioned, because base-files is
essential. Nevertheless they restrict the ability to cross grade
packages.

Hmmm, let's see:

dpkg -s rsync | grep Depends:
Depends: [...] base-files (>= 4.0.1)

That's etch! Not even lenny, squeeze or wheezy.

As we don't support upgrades which skip releases (i.e. Debian 4.0 to Debian 6.0, or Debian 5.0 to Debian 7.0), why don't we remove all those obsolete dependencies on essential packages instead?


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