Your message dated Sun, 19 Sep 2021 12:07:24 -0300 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#994412: OK I removed both, then reinstalled one has caused the Debian Bug report #994412, regarding Not easy to remove dummy package cleanly to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-el Version: 37.10 When I try to remove this dummy package, aptitude says The following packages will be REMOVED: debian-el{p} elpa-debian-el{pu} (D: debian-el) But other dummy packages don't trigger this in aptitude.
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--- Begin Message ---積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> writes: > Well on a vanilla system I still get: > > # aptitude -s purge debian-el > The following packages will be REMOVED: > debian-el{p} elpa-debian-el{u} > > aptitude show says: > > Package: elpa-debian-el > Version: 37.10 > State: installed > Automatically installed: yes > > Package: debian-el > Version: 37.10 > State: installed > Automatically installed: no This is aptitude behaving as documented then (since Aptitude::Delete-Unused is at it's default setting). https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s02s06.en.html I don't know why you don't encounter the same behaviour with other transitional packages, but there does not seem to be anything wrong with debian-el, so closing the bug.
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