[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#586681: initscripts: apt-get dist-upgrade from etch to lenny fails

[Valters]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-38+etchnhalf.1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


488 upgraded, 126 newly installed, 11 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/264MB of archives.
After this operation, 208MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package initscripts due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove initscripts



-- 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 2.6.25-2-686-bigmem
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils      2.17                    Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs        1.41.3-1                ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  libc6            2.7-18lenny4            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base         3.2-20                  Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount            2.12r-19etch1           Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit-utils   2.86.ds1-38+etchnhalf.1 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.3-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

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