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) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]