reopen 34223 severity 34223 normal retitle 34223 apt and packaging manual are in contradiction thanks
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > * These bugs have been fixed, explanations are in the bug system, read > the man pages as well.. > Closes: #21113, #22507, #22675, #22836, #22892, #32883, #33006, #34121, > #23984, #24685, #24799, #25001, #25019, #34223, #34296, #34355, > #24021, #25022, #25026, #25104, #25176, #31557, #31691, #31853, > #25458, #26019, #26433, #26592, #26670, #27100, #27100, #27601, > #28184, #28391, #28778, #29293, #29351, #27841, #28172, #30260, > #29382, #29441, #29903, #29920, #29983, #30027, #30076, #30112, > #31009, #31155, #31381, #31883, #32140, #32395, #32584. #34465, > #30383, #30441, #30472, #30643, #30827, #30324, #36425, #34596 [ Comment: I wish there were better ways to close a bug... Please, note that the bug system shows no explanation at all about the reasons to close this bug, and nowhere is said the exact man page where I am supposed to look for an explanation ]. Anyway, by reading debian-testing, it seems APT has been modified so that the user has to type the entire bible before removing an essential package. Well, I admit this is very "imaginative" as a workaround. However, the packaging manual does not allow it yet (at least not the *letter* of it). Therefore, I still see here a contradiction between what packaging manual says a dselect method should do, and what apt actually does. I'm reopening this bug since a contradiction still remains (for this reason I'm doing a retitle as well). If you think this contradiction should be solved by changing the packaging manual, please reassign this bug to the packaging-manual package (which is maintained by the debian-policy mailing list), I will not object to you making this reassign, but I think it should be you the one to do it. Thanks. -- "c8592afc434b887238bf4ea68116e285" (a truly random sig)
