On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 01:04:56PM +0000, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 7 Oct 2023 13:47 +0200, from keller.st...@gmx.de (Steve Keller): > > # aptitude purge lsb-base > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > lsb-base{p} > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 12.3 kB will be freed. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > > > > Won't continuing here leave ntpsec with an unresolved package dependency?
> I'm not sure if that's it, and I'm pretty sure I've never seen a `{p}` > (is that aptitude's way of indicating that a package will be purged > rather than just uninstalled; that which apt-get shows as `*`?), but > might at least a partial explanation be that lsb-base in Bookworm is > an empty transitional package? That's definitely part of the whole picture, yes. Package: sysvinit-utils [...] Provides: lsb-base (= 11.1.0) When you remove the physical lsb-base package, the virtual package provided by sysvinit-utils remains, to satisfy the dependencies of ntpsec, rsync, etc.