Package: apt Version: all of them, starting with the one in the upgrades-i386 directory for hamm. Priority: high
[ "Priority: high" means that maybe slink release has not to be delayed to fix this bug, but it will be *much* better if it is fixed before the release anyway. I'm not using "Severity" here to not being flamed ]. [ Note: I'm reporting this bug because I already know of a case of someone that managed to broke his apt because of this ]. apt should ideally use Pre-Depends instead of Depends for the shared libraries it depends on, since most people use it is a fundamental part of the packaging system. The great inconvenience of having an apt which does not work because it was upgraded before its shared libraries is by far much bigger than the small inconvenience of a new apt not being unpacked because it does not meet its pre-dependencies. For this reason I think apt should use Pre-Depends for libstc++ and libc. If we are publicising apt as the "ideal installation method", it should be as robust as dpkg and dselect, and the Pre-Depends field will give it the same robustness of an essential package. If you have to ask in debian-devel before adding this Pre-Depends field, please do so. Thanks. -- "42d02b79cd43afc1b5485e75ae7a43c1" (a truly random sig)
