Bug#319522: aptitude: should produce terrifying warnings when removing essential packages

Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.15.9-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, aptitude remove libc6 gives a lengthy list of packages, but is quite happy to remove them. In contrast, apt-get gives all sorts of terrifying warnings, as I'm sure you are aware. Eg. WARNING: The following essential packages will

Bug#319522: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#319522: aptitude: should produce terrifying warnings when removing essential packages)

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: I can't even get 0.3's problem resolver to accept a solution that removes libc6, so I found a box running sarge and tried this myself: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude -s remove libc6 [...] 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 234 to