reassign 612426 multistrap thanks On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Package: base-files > Version: 5.3 > Severity: important > > base-files uses chmod in the postinst script which needs /etc/passwd > and /etc/group to be present. those file are created by the > base-passwd package and hence base-files should depend on it. > > i found this bug when running multistrap which uses apt and hence > relies on the package dependencies to be correct to determine > configuration order of packages. base-passwd is Essential: yes, and policy says packages do not need to depend on essential packages. Therefore, this is not a bug in base-files. One might argue that even if the dependency is not mandated by policy, base-files could "help" multistrap by explicitly having the dependency. However, if we do this for every package which depends on another essential package, this would result in lots of circular dependencies, which are also highly discouraged, so I really believe this is a problem that should be solved by multistrap, hence the reassign. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
