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 still see this, would you mind attaching the output of these commands? $ apt-cache show diff $ apt-cache policy diff $ grep -A10 '^Package: diff' /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/lib/dpkg/status Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org