For the record: I personally don't consider this bug fix-worthy for stable.
First of all: The title is not completely accurate: APT removes as requested the required package 'mawk' - (the command used is not provided in the report, but as nothing can conflict with a required package and required packages are also not considered for autoremove it needs to be an explicit userrequest) unfortunately it does this before installing the optional replacement gawk. Both provide awk on which base-files pre-depends making one of those awk-implementations (or any other) a pseudo essential. 1. mawk is as said required so the count of people removing it shouldn't be too high - and they should know what they did and how to fix it. 2. Triggers are part of the configuration process of a package, so the dependencies of the package responsible for the trigger should be installed. Unfortunately initramfs-tools depends on the fact that awk is a pseudo essential instead of depending on it for real. These two things together with the diffstats of rev 1964.8.12 which tells us that it adds 77 lines of nontrivial code to one of the more complex parts of APT used also by aptitude and co. made me think it doesn't worth the pain of releasing a fixed stable version, but if Stable Release Team or alike beg to differ… Best regards David Kalnischkies P.S.: I still think that the fix helps in other complicated cases too we needed to come up with a "workaround" before, but i have no such case currently handy for testing and it would help anyway only in squeeze to squeeze+1 upgrades… (before we need to assume that the user uses an unfixed apt) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
