Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes:

> Britney changes
> ===============

> We have deployed a change in Britney that causes her to pay more
> attention to essential packages.  In particular, all packages now have
> to be co-installable with the essential set.  Previously, a package
> could conflict with a essential package.  It would still be considered
> installable by Britney as long as the transitive dependency closure of
> the package did not (explicitly) require the essential package it
> conflicted with.

This has implications for upstart, doesn't it?  It still conflicts with
sysvinit, which is essential.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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