On 2023-05-15 08:36:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 15 May 2023 at 12:51:55 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Under Debian/unstable, i.e. more much recent than stretch: > > > > zira:~> dpkg -s net-tools > > Package: net-tools > > Status: install ok installed > > Priority: important > > [...] > > > > This is still priority important! > > Not at all; AFAICT, the /internal/ Priority of the package has never > changed.
But this is what the user sees. > (Just guessing: if you installed it, you need it, and better > hang on to it.) Wrong. It got installed automatically. I suppose that this is because this was like that in the past, when I installed the machine in 2015, thus before stretch was out. I suspect that it wasn't removed because of the remaining "Recommends" from pbuilder: zira:~> aptitude why net-tools i pbuilder Recommends net-tools | iproute2 Note: iproute2 is installed too, but net-tools gets the preference. This "Recommends" is rather strange if iproute2 is supposed to be better! -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
