Your message dated Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:11:57 +0100 (CET)
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and subject line Re: Bug#553354: diff: shouldn't be marked as essential when
description assures that it can be safely removed
has caused the Debian Bug report #553354,
regarding diff: shouldn't be marked as essential when description assures that
it can be safely removed
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Package: diff
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 3.8
Package was marked as 'essential', but the policy is:
Since these packages cannot be easily removed (one has to specify an extra
force option to dpkg to do so), this flag must not be used unless absolutely
necessary.
But the package description states:
It may be safely removed after upgrading to squeeze.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc5-lizzie
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages diff depends on:
ii diffutils 1:2.8.1-18 File comparison utilities
diff recommends no packages.
diff suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Celejar wrote:
> Package: diff
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 3.8
>
>
> Package was marked as 'essential', but the policy is:
>
> Since these packages cannot be easily removed (one has to specify an extra
> force option to dpkg to do so), this flag must not be used unless absolutely
> necessary.
>
> But the package description states:
>
> It may be safely removed after upgrading to squeeze.
Bogus report.
dpkg --info diff_2.8.1-18_all.deb | grep -i Essential
[output is empty]
This may be a bug in dpkg/apt if you are still unable to remove it,
but certainly not a bug in diff.
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