Bug#933697: libuuid1 declared to replace e2fsprogs

2019-08-02 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Thanks. Though, I'm afraid I jumped to a wrong conclusion from 'apt-cache depends libuuid1' claiming to replace e2fsprogs without showing the version caveat. It's now clearer that my problem comes up in Devuan beowulf but not in Debian buster, and as you already pointed out, this particular thing i

Bug#933697: libuuid1 declared to replace e2fsprogs

2019-08-02 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:09:03PM +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: > Well, > > when I then "agt-get install libuuid1:i386" (on this multiarch) > I get advice about a page full of packages to be removed, and the > following (plus a bit more): > --- > WARNING: The following essential packages will be

Bug#933697: libuuid1 declared to replace e2fsprogs

2019-08-01 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
On a second try, with a fresh live ISO, I had to mess around quite a bit before arriving at that warning. So perhaps my previous system was a bit too far from pristine. Ralph. Ralph Ronnquist wrote on 2/8/19 2:09 pm: > Well, > > when I then "agt-get install libuuid1:i386" (on this multiarch) > I

Bug#933697: libuuid1 declared to replace e2fsprogs

2019-08-01 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Well, when I then "agt-get install libuuid1:i386" (on this multiarch) I get advice about a page full of packages to be removed, and the following (plus a bit more): --- WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!

Bug#933697: libuuid1 declared to replace e2fsprogs

2019-08-01 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 11:25:10AM +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote: > Package: libuuid1 > Version: 2.34-0.1 > > The package is declared to replace e2fsprogs, which it doesn't do. > Rather, installing it has a fair few ramifications on the installed system. > > The package belongs to the util-linux s

Bug#933697: libuuid1 declared to replace e2fsprogs

2019-08-01 Thread Ralph Ronnquist
Package: libuuid1 Version: 2.34-0.1 The package is declared to replace e2fsprogs, which it doesn't do. Rather, installing it has a fair few ramifications on the installed system. The package belongs to the util-linux source, and it seems to be the same issue with uuid-runtime and uuid-dev. Ralph