Bug#480784: passwd: You can only use the -b or --base-dir option when supplying -D

Package: passwd Version: 1:4.0.18.1-7 Severity: important Tags: patch -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF

Bug#404779: Urgent fix for this bug

The kernel-image-2.6- transition package must be installed as part of the base system in order for the dist-upgrade to properly upgrade the kernel and initial ram packages. Perhaps the base system package list should be changed to reflect this? Upon installing kernel-image-2.6-686 for Sarge and