Package: apt Version: 2.4.1 Severity: minor With "apt install ...", apt wants to install a package as a dependency, but this package is already provided by an installed package, via "Provides:".
Example: cventin:~> apt install -s elpa-transient [...] The following additional packages will be installed: emacs but on my machine, emacs-gtk is already installed, and it has Provides: editor, emacs, emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader Note: emacs is a metapackage for emacs-gtk or variants, so that it is completely useless if emacs-gtk is installed directly. -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.120 ii debian-archive-keyring 2021.1.1 ii gpgv 2.2.27-3 ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.4.1 ii libc6 2.33-7 ii libgcc-s1 12-20220302-1 ii libgnutls30 3.7.3-4+b1 ii libseccomp2 2.5.3-2 ii libstdc++6 12-20220302-1 ii libsystemd0 250.3-2 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii ca-certificates 20211016 Versions of packages apt suggests: ii apt-doc 2.4.1 ii aptitude 0.8.13-3 ii dpkg-dev 1.21.1 ii gnupg 2.2.27-3 ii powermgmt-base 1.36 -- no debconf information -- 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)
