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Bug#909643: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: doing a dist-upgrade from debian7 to debian8 ended with a non bootable system)

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On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 10:43 +0900, Stephane Tranchemer wrote:
> Hi,
> You are right Ben, this was the culprit.
> 
> The bottom line is, in a previous version of the debian distribution the
> busybox package was called "busybox-cvs-static".
> 
> But at a time it just gone to "busybox-static", so when doing the normal
> procedure of
> apt-update
> apt-upgrade
> apt-distupgrade
> 
> it is not replaced by the newer version...

Yes, and it obviously should have been.

> Quite a nasty pitfall.
> 
> Thanks for your time.

It appears that busybox-cvs was only uploaded once and only included in
the Debian 3.1 "sarge" release.  It was then obsoleted by newer
versions of busybox, but that didn't build the transitional packages
needed to cause an automatic upgrade.

But I think it is now much to late to do anything about this.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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Bug#909643: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: doing a dist-upgrade from debian7 to debian8 ended with a non bootable system) Stephane Tranchemer <stephane.tranchemer@asahinet.com> - 2019-02-04 02:50 +0100
  Bug#909643: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: doing a dist-upgrade from debian7 to debian8 ended with a non bootable system) Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-02-04 07:50 +0100

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