reassign 472551 aptitude severity 472551 serious # policy 5.6.9 retitle 472551 aptitude accepts to remove essential packages thanks
Le jeudi 24 avril 2008 à 00:48 +0100, Tom Parker a écrit : > Installed from Etch 4.0r2 DVDs a little while back. Using a mix of > stable,testing,unstable and experimental packages. Been upgrading with > aptitude mostly, and as I've just noticed (using aptitude 0.4.11.1-1 > to uninstall mktemp) it will let you quite happily uninstall Essential > packages without so much as a "are you really sure you want to do > this?". The console output says: > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: > This is an essential package - it should not be removed. > (Reading database ... 115481 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing mktemp ... Indeed, this is reproducible; aptitude will ask to type "do as I say" if the only operation requested is an essential package's removal, but it will happily remove an essential package if there are some packages to autoremove in the database. (Ah, I wish the recommended tool for upgrades were not one that diverges from APT's upgrading algorithms in so ugly ways.) -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
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