On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 11:24:42PM +0100, Nicola Orrù via Dng wrote:
> Hi, all,
> My first post to this list!
> For the last couple of days I've been trying to keep up-to date on
> Ceres, which I do quite regularly.
> But now, If I run the usual
> sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> I get the following alert:
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
> init sysvinit-core (due to init)
> 49 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 481 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
> Need to get 62.2 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 9362 MB disk space will be freed.
> You are about to do something potentially harmful.
> To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
> Of course I don't want to remove 481 packages. What am I doing wrong?
Nothing! I have had this for about the last 10 days too. It is already
reported. See
https://bugs.devuan.org/312. I think Centurion_Dan is working on
it.
It relates to the Debian fix for
https://bugs.debian.org/923861 which breaks our
fork of lsb.
Mark