Comment 4 for bug 11171

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:59:45 +0000
From: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
To: Kurt Roeckx <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: debootstrap: fails to bootstrap sid: pppoeconf added dependency on gettext.

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,

--
Colin Watson [<email address hidden>]