Thanks for your bug report. On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 09:25:30AM +0200, Vincenzo Tibullo wrote: > I used deborphan whit the only option -P, to see the priority of > packages it considers elegible to remove, and one of the packages was > 'libusb-1.0-0', that was reported as 'important', but aptitude and > apt-cache report this as 'optional'.
Deborphan uses the information provided by dpkg in the file /var/lib/dpkg/status; apt-cache and aptitude use libapt to get information about the packages. This is a very old design choice and it is not going to change in the next few years. If the information provided my libapt and dpkg differ you get the described behaviour. The bug is not the different information source, but the fact that these information differ. According to the package tracking system[1], libusb has the following problem: libusb-1.0-0: Override says libs - optional, .deb says libs - important I'm reassigning this bug to libusb-1.0-0. Regards Carsten [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/libu/libusb-1.0.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
