On 2010-01-08 21:33 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:25:09PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: >> >> The only version of bash having bash_completion is in oldstable. >> I haven't received any similar bug report for all this time, maybe this >> happened to Kurt for some strange event? > > At some point in time the chroot had the version from oldstable > or older, just like all my chroots and main systems. And I have > upgraded from that version. I never installed bash-completion. > But now some pacakge build-depends on that for some strange reason, > and I get that error.
Looking closer at the issue, I don't understand at all why this error happens, because dpkg _does_ allow to take over obsolete conffiles without proper Replaces. Otherwise, the problem would likely have been reported before. I tested in a chroot with Etch's, Lenny's and Squeeze's dpkg, and they all happily install bash-completion with etc/bash_completion being an obsolete conffile of bash 3.2-4 (or 4.0-7). Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
