On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 04:51:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Only because it's a cdebootstrap bug. Unless you see something that > > > causes > > > initramfs-tools to be pulled into the essential set (which I do not), this > > > is a cdebootstrap bug for not fulfilling the pre-depends of the essential > > > packages before continuing.
At least in Lucid, initramfs-tools is essential: util-linux -> upstart(upstart-job) -> mountall -> plymouth -> initramfs-tools > > You should know better, awk is not essential. Also essential means that > > it have to work _without_ being configured. > I know quite well that awk *is* part of the essential closure, because it's a > pre-dependency of an essential package. Even *unpacking* of base-files is > not supposed to happen (in an ideal world) before awk has been configured, > and you definitely shouldn't be trying to configure *other* packages before > the pre-depends of essential packages have been satisfied. In an ideal world, it is possible to configure every essential package with its dependencies and pre-dependendies on its own. Bastian -- There are some things worth dying for. -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3201.7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org