libc6 should not depend on findutils
Bug #345927 reported by
Gioele Barabucci
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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glibc (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
libc6 should not depend on findutils.
The dependence has been added to solve bug #234345: during dist-upgrade, debconf could not be installed because it relied on xargs and xargs crashed because it had not been updated while libc6 had been.
Therefore, the dependence is not real and is just a work-around solution to that precise problem (already solved in a cleaner way by update-manager). Will other packages will be added to the dependence of libc6 when it will be discovered that they crash when installed along with a too-new libc6?
If apt had installed libc6 and fileutils/coreutils before installing debconf, and not debconf before xargs, that problem would had not show up.
Changed in glibc (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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