Comment 3 for bug 11171

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In , Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:54:35PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: debootstrap
> Version: 0.2.45
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid
>
> pppoeconf (which is a base package) added a dependency on
> gettext. Now debootstrapping sid is failing because pppoeconf is
> missing it's dependency on gettext.

Sounds like a serious bug on pppoeconf to me. Base packages aren't
allowed to add non-base dependencies at the moment to avoid exactly this
problem.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson [<email address hidden>]