Package: sextractor Version: 2.25.0+ds-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, According to it's Detailed Description, it seems sextractor is a dummy package with the new update as can be seen below -
$ aptitude show sextractor Package: sextractor Version: 2.25.0+ds-2 State: installed Automatically installed: yes Priority: optional Section: science Maintainer: Debian Astronomy Maintainers <debian-astro-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: all Uncompressed Size: 30.7 k Depends: source-extractor Description: Dummy transitional package for name change The original package name is seen as no longer appropriate by the astrophysics community, triggering a name change. This package ensures a smooth transition to the new package name. The transitional package can be safely removed. Homepage: https://www.astromatic.net/software/sextractor Tags: field::astronomy, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::application, use::converting,works-with-format::TODO, works-with::image, works-with::image:raster Now trying to purge it, it does things differently though - $ sudo aptitude purge sextractor The following packages will be REMOVED: sextractor{p} source-extractor{u} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1,276 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. So seems something is wrong somewhere. Maybe it will need another update to orphan it or something or maybe it will just be orphaned ? -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (100, 'unstable-debug'), (100, 'experimental'), (100, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages sextractor depends on: ii source-extractor 2.25.0+ds-2 sextractor recommends no packages. sextractor suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com E493 D466 6D67 59F5 1FD0 930F 870E 9A5B 5869 609C