Comment 6 for bug 11171

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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:50:00 +0100
From: Eduard Bloch <email address hidden>
To: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
Cc: Kurt Roeckx <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: debootstrap: fails to bootstrap sid: pppoeconf added dependency on gettext.

reassign 285496 pppoeconf
thanks

#include <hallo.h>
* Colin Watson [Mon, Dec 13 2004, 06:59:45PM]:
> 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.

I agree. The new pppoeconf is not for Sarge.

Regards,
Eduard.
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