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On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:45 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Hi Remi.
Chris Z. and I just looked at this again. The property Essential
does not even make it into the .deb. We're guessing that your
installation is still picking up the info from some
Ah, so maybe the solution is to push binaries of the no-longer-
essential packages into the bindist? (In current)?
(We *do* use current, for the small handful of packages which get
updated or added in between bindist releases.)
-- Dave
On Dec 7, 2006, at 4:18 AM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
Hi,
I had to delete the old fink-prebinding deb from apt's archive and
run 'apt-cache gencaches' to get rid of the essential flag in apt-
cache. Thus, somehow apt sticks to the essential flag when it is
present in any deb, not necessarily in the newest one.
Remi
On Dec 7, 2006, at 8:29 AM,
It is true, however, that cctools-extra, fink-prebinding, and ncurses-
shlibs used to be Essential: yes (in the 10.4-transitional tree,
for example) but are now Essential: no. It's possible that the
warning was accurate, because the user had old versions of those
packages installed which
Hi Dave,
I rebuilt the fink-prebinding package yesterday to make sure that I
have the latest deb corresponding to the info file. But apt still
complains. I believe the pure presence of the word 'Essential' is
enough for apt to treat it as essential. Maybe we should remove the
Essential:
Hi Remi.
Chris Z. and I just looked at this again. The property Essential
does not even make it into the .deb. We're guessing that your
installation is still picking up the info from some old version of
the file. Try running apt-get update to see if that makes it go
away? (The old
