forcemerge 216768 553354
affects 216768 + aptitude
thanks
`aptitude show' and `aptitude search ~e' both determine essential by:
pkg-Flags pkgCache::Flag::Essential
These flags are shared by *all* versions of a package. If one version
is marked essential in it's control file, then all are
Hi,
I just could reproduce the described behaviour like this:
when having a sources.list like this
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deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:50:39PM -0400, Celejar cele...@gmail.com was heard
to say:
Hm, you're right, of course. Aptitude had insisted vehemently that the
packages was essential, and indeed, aptitude still insists that it is:
~$ aptitude show diff
Package: diff
Essential: yes
If you
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:27:56 -0800
Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:50:39PM -0400, Celejar cele...@gmail.com was
heard to say:
Hm, you're right, of course. Aptitude had insisted vehemently that the
packages was essential, and indeed, aptitude still
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
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Celejar wrote:
~$ aptitude show diff
Package: diff
Essential: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1:2.8.1-18
Priority: extra
Section: oldlibs
Maintainer: Santiago Vila sanv...@debian.org
Uncompressed Size: 32.8k
PreDepends: diffutils
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:11:57 +0100 (CET)
Santiago Vila sanv...@unex.es wrote:
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
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