[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1019465: Bug#1019465: aptitude: wants to remove the required package lsb-base with a broken reason

[Axel Beckert]

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Hi Vincent,

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> After marking some packages for upgrade, I get:
> 
> --\ Packages being deleted due to unsatisfied dependencies (1)
> id  lsb-base         -50.2 kB  11.2                     11.2

which is correct, yes.

> Linux Standard Base init script functionality
> lsb-base (remove, 11.2) will be automatically removed because of dependency    ▒
> errors:                                                                        ▒

Where did this show up? I didn't get this. Or at least can't remember
it. Was this a pop-up message?

> but no errors shown!!!

Because they were resolved.

> It seems to be triggered by the upgrade of sysvinit packages from
> 3.04-1 to 3.05-2. In the sysvinit 3.05-1 log message:
> 
>   * Take over library scripts from lsb-base.

Yes, but because of this:

Conflicts: lsb-base

So from my point of view aptitude did everything correctly and I don't
see a bug here.

		Regards, Axel
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