reassign 494073 debianutils retitle 494073 mktemp not present on a lenny system severity 494073 wishlist thanks
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Philipp Kern wrote: > clone 493938 -1 > reassign -1 base > retitle -1 Essential packages introduced in a release are not installed > automatically > tag 493938 + wontfix > thanks > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 04:48:24PM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote: > > Yes, it was really not present on my machine and required installing. > > > > Older installation doing upgrades rather then blowing it away and > > reinstalling. As far as I can tell, neither apt-get nor aptitude ever > > noticed a missing essential/required package that appeared after the > > initial install. Perhaps this is really a package management bug? > > It looks like, reassigning to base. I'm not sure if this is an apt bug > in itself, or not. > > To explain the situation: mktemp is essential since 2006-05-18, which > is the version in Etch. ca-certificates does, of course, not depend on > it, although it needs it in postinst. This is already the second bug > report I got about this issue, so it seems not that uncommon. > > The problem: Machines upgraded from Sarge to Etch won't get mktemp > pulled in, because nothing depends on essential packages. They won't > receive it later on, again out of the same reason. They are only > pulled into new installations, by (c)debootstrap, due to their > priority and their essential status. > > So some meta package needs to depend on those newly introduced essential > packages for one release (as we don't support skipping one anyway). No need. The mktemp command was in debianutils, and it was moved to its own package called mktemp. To avoid breakage, the debianutils version in etch has a Pre-Depends: mktemp. Since debianutils is Essential: yes, this should be enough for upgrades that do not skip releases to pull the new essential package. However, for upgrades that skip etch, and considering that this has been reported more than once, I think it might be worthy to keep the Pre-Depends: mktemp in debianutils in lenny as well. So I reassign this to debianutils. This is definitely not something to be handled by base-files. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
