Bug#359288: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#359288: acknowledged by developer (Do"apt-get-f install")

[Thomas Hood]

Uwe Brauer wrote:
> The following frighting message appears:
> #apt-get install mount
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   libblkid1
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   mount-aes
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   mount
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   libblkid1
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
>   mount-aes
> 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1203 not upgraded.
> Need to get 181kB of archives.
> After unpacking 20.5kB disk space will be freed.
> You are about to do something potentially harmful.
> To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
>  ?] 
> 
> 
> Call me coward, but I did this once, and the whole system became
> unusable!


You have a "mount-aes" package installed but there is no such package
in the Debian archives.

$ apt-cache madison mount-aes
$

I don't know where you got it, but its presence is the reason you are
having trouble upgrading initscripts.
-- 
Thomas Hood