Comment 5 for bug 294513

It will definitely be fixed in jaunty; I'm not sure yet whether I'll push this as a change for intrepid-updates, because while I'm sure that it fixes a bug, I'm less confident that it won't reduce any other regressions in the process. So I'm going to let it cook in jaunty for a bit first to get it some extra testing before proposing it for intrepid.

In any case, I suspect that most users who are going to upgrade from hardy to intrepid have already done so (or will have done so soon), so pushing this into intrepid is not very time-critical particularly when weighed against the possibility of regression.

I've also committed the second patch now; you're right that if we consider an empty list of modules an error condition, we should do that when it's due to removals, as well.