Package: diffutils
Version: 1:2.8.1-18
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 7.6.1
Hello,
I've added 'unstable' in my sources.list for some *noarch packages and after
the last dist-upgrade the 'diffutils' package was installed due to being
'Essential: yes'. However, I realized that this package
reopen 563895
thanks
[I don't like playing ping-pong with "close" and "reopen" but in this
case I think you misunderstood the environment]
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Santiago Vila wrote:
> In testing and unstable, diff is now a dummy package which depends on
> diffutils. That is the intende
> > Also, please note that if you have unstable in sources.list and, as
> > you say, do a dist-upgrade, then for all purposes you are no longer
> > running "lenny".
>
> I'm running pure lenny + latest cacti from unstable (a _noarch package).
>
> >> However, I realized that this package is not a p
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Santiago Vila wrote:
> So: What exactly are you complaining about?
I'm not complaining about anything. I've fixed my local problem simply
by reinstalling 'diff' to have the missing binaries back.
This bug report is about improving and essential package from Debian
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Teodor MICU wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > So: What exactly are you complaining about?
>
> I'm not complaining about anything. I've fixed my local problem simply
> by reinstalling 'diff' to have the missing binaries back.
>
> This bug repor
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Nothing bad happens when 'diffutils' is installed but diff=2.8.1-12 is
> not upgraded automatically to the same version as 'diffutils', so
> there is no need to avoid that.
>
> Your problem came from removing diffutils, which was essential,
>
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