[Bug 345927] Re: libc6 should not depend on findutils

[Adam Conrad]

** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  libc6 should not depend on findutils

Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  libc6 should not depend on findutils.

  The dependence has been added to solve bug #234345: during dist-
  upgrade, debconf could not be installed because it relied on xargs and
  xargs crashed because it had not been updated while libc6 had been.

  Therefore, the dependence is not real and is just a work-around
  solution to that precise problem (already solved in a cleaner way by
  update-manager). Will other packages will be added to the dependence
  of libc6 when it will be discovered that they crash when installed
  along with a too-new libc6?

  If apt had installed libc6 and fileutils/coreutils before installing
  debconf, and not debconf before xargs, that problem would had not show
  up.

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