[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#827705: dependency loop between initscripts and sysvinit-utils causes dist-upgrade failure

[Michael Biebl]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 00:59:57 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Am 20.06.2016 um 00:47 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > Am 19.06.2016 um 23:39 schrieb Santiago Vila:
> > 
> >> # apt-get upgrade
> >> [...]
> >> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> >> [...]
> >> E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package sysvinit-utils:amd64 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 sysvinit-utils:amd64 (2)

> > It's not, afaics. My guess is it's related to [1]

For some context, this is from a debian-devel discussion and [1] was

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827212

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