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and subject line Re: Bug#487821: deborphan: fails to find package "alien"
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regarding deborphan: fails to find package "alien"
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Package: deborphan
Version: 1.7.24
Severity: normal
Here is the output of deborphan -a on my server:
main/admin apt-file
main/admin deborphan
main/admin hdparm
main/admin lvm2
main/admin mbmon
main/admin pciutils
main/doc info
main/doc manpages
main/editors nano
main/mail procmail
main/misc popularity-contest
main/net apt-cacher
main/net bind9
main/net cups
main/net ddclient
main/net dhcp3-server
main/net finger
main/net iputils-ping
main/net mldonkey-server
main/net ntp
main/net openssh-server
main/net samba
main/net shorewall
main/net slapd
main/net tcpdump
main/net telnet
main/net traceroute
main/net ulogd
main/news leafnode
main/sound lastfmsubmitd
main/sound mt-daapd
main/utils hddtemp
main/utils reportbug
main/web gallery2
main/web wordpress
main/x11 gkrelltopd
non-free/utils rar
... none of those packages depend on alien, so why is alien not on the
list?
Apologies if this is a stupid question or a duplicate bug.
Regards,
Chris
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages deborphan depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
Versions of packages deborphan recommends:
ii apt 0.7.14+b1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
pn dialog <none> (no description available)
ii gettext-base 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
-- no debconf information
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On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 14:42 +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:00:23PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> > > ... none of those packages depend on alien, so why is alien not on the
> > > list?
> >
> > Please paste the output of the following command, which must be run as root:
> >
> > apt-get --simulate remove alien
>
> When the above-mentioned command would remove additional packages please
> close this bug with a mail to 487821-done at bugs.debian.org and a short
> explanation. In this case a installed package indirectly depends on
> alien.
No, that command removes only alien.
> Otherwise please check the output of "deborphan -n -a". If alien is
> included in this command a installed package recommends or suggests
> alien and you did not tell deborphan to ignore suggestions or
> recommendation. In this case please also close this bug with a mail to
> the above-mentioned address, including a short explanation (or simply
> quote this paragraph).
My apologies - I did not realise that deborphan treated
recommended/suggested packages as required unless told otherwise. My
fault for not RTFM. Sorry.
It turns out that alien is suggested by rpm, which is one of its
dependencies. So you can never have alien show up in the output of
deborphan unless you use -n (which makes a ton of other stuff show up as
well).
For the wishlist, it would be good to have two versions of -n: one which
ignores suggests and one which ignores recommends. You could then choose
either one, or both.
Thanks, and sorry again to trouble you,
Chris
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