Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: important Hello.
I don't know exactly what happens, but the problem seems to appear frequently and nobody cares about it. What happens? While doing a big dist-upgrade, dpkg stops on configuring the packages. The package where it breaks depends on another one, which has been selected to install but not configured before. What is the reason? Normally, dpkg manages to configure the packages in the right order, but not when invoked from apt. But what is the problem here? I guess, apt feeds dpkg with small series of packages, and something is going wrong on sorting them. Note that this behaviour is not suitable for a stable distribution, since Potato upgraders would wonder about such trouble, and applications like tasksel break. Feel free to downgrade the severity to normal but don't say later that this issue was never reported. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux zombie 2.4.9 #2 Mon Aug 20 02:10:18 CEST 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.4-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010810 The GNU stdc++ library
