On 2010-05-27 18:26 +0200, Martin Fick wrote: > Hmm, OK. I am not familiar with what that means. How is > "essentialness" enforced?
The installer and debootstrap will install essential packages. > Should the installer know this and automatically install essential > packages when upgrading then? The installer is not responsible for upgrades. Transitional packages are necessary to ensure that new essential packages are installed. In this case, /bin/mktemp used to be in the debianutils package until the Sarge release but was moved to the new mktemp package in Etch. The debianutils package in Etch pre-depended on mktemp, but this dependency was removed after the Etch release. > Perhaps this is a reflection of a bug from another > part of the system since mktemp did not get automatically > installed on my system when I upgraded it? Most likely this happened because you upgraded debianutils from Sarge to a post-Etch version. Such upgrades leaping over a stable Debian release are not supported. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
