Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu
Hi,
Laurent Bonnaud (bonnaud@irisa.fr) wrote:
: i first installed Debian 1.1 (how was it called btw ?)
Buzz (Lightyear) was the name of Debian 1.1. Cool name.
: - dselect reports the package base 1.1.0-13 as obsolete but will not
: purge it (neither will dpkg --purge) because it is an essential
: package. It does not stop me from working but it would be cleaner
: if i could remove it. Removing its entry from the status file would
: it be safe ?
I have had the same problem since 1.1. I'm in 1.2 and haven't upgraded to
1.3 yet because our production servers are mission critical so I am waiting
for something like 1.3.x where x > 1. Any way, I heard in the list
that upgrading to 1.3 won't get rid of this undesirable package or solve
the problem.
I wish one of the developers give an explanation of why this happened
and if we will have to live forever with this "obsolete" package (unless
we re-install from scratch that in my case is not an option and would
make my selection of Debian, because of its upgradability, senseless.)
I've seen several messages in the list regarding this problem but
never have seen a satisfactory answer. I think I recall someone
said not to remove this package as the consequences would be
fatal.
E.-
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Eloy A. Paris
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Rockwell Automation de Venezuela
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