Hi,
I just could reproduce the described behaviour like this:
when having a sources.list like this
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deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/d
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:27:56 -0800
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:50:39PM -0400, Celejar 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:
> >
> > ~$ apt
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:50:39PM -0400, Celejar 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 th
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:11:57 +0100 (CET)
Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Celejar wrote:
>
> > Package: diff
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Policy 3.8
> >
> >
> > Package was marked as 'essential', but the policy is:
> >
> > Since these packages cannot be easily removed (
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Celejar wrote:
> ~$ aptitude show diff
> Package: diff
> Essential: yes
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 1:2.8.1-18
> Priority: extra
> Section: oldlibs
> Maintainer: Santiago Vila
> Uncompressed Size: 32.8k
> PreDepends: diffutils
> Description: du
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