Changelog
base-files (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed awk from Depends to Pre-Depends. Closes: #314571, #469552.
This is required to make the awk virtual package to be truly essential,
as only essential packages, their predependencies, and the dependencies
of their predependencies are guaranteed to be "working at all times".
Previously, the packaging system was allowed to remove an awk flavour
and install another one in the middle of an upgrade, which may break
packages using awk in their preinsts (and in fact, it happened).
Tkanks a lot to Steve Langasek for clarifying this issue.
* It's still soon to change /etc/debian_version. Please be patient.
-- Santiago Vila <email address hidden> Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:06:06 +0200
