Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Trying to upgrade e2fsprogs from version 1.35-6 to version 1.38-2 failed with a
'Pre-Depends / Conflicts' error and a suggestion that enabling
APT::Force-LoopBreak might work. According to man apt.conf(5):
Force-LoopBreak
Never Enable this option unless you -really- know what you are
doing. It per-
mits APT to temporarily remove an essential package to break a
Conflicts/Con-
flicts or Conflicts/Pre-Depend loop between two essential
packages. SUCH A
LOOP SHOULD NEVER EXIST AND IS A GRAVE BUG. This option
will work if the
essential packages are not tar, gzip, libc, dpkg, bash or
anything that those
packages depend on.
I therefore report this 'GRAVE BUG' :).
I subsequently enabled Force-LoopBreak and the upgrade proceeded smoothly. I
posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and another user reported the identical experience
with his e2fsprogs upgrade.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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