Bug#38376: apt: apt-get remove doesn't mention Recommends to package
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.6
Severity: wishlist
The transfig package "Recommends: netpbm". Now I tried what happens,
when I remove the netpbm package using "apt-get remove netpbm". I
expected that the program would tell me that transfig still recommends
this package, but apt-get simply tries to remove the package without
any comment:
# apt-get remove netpbm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
netpbm
The following held packages will be changed:
netpbm
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 270 not upgraded.
Need to get 0b of archives. After unpacking 1338kb will be freed.
I think, that apt-get should tell the user that there is a
recommendation like dselect does (dselect suggests removing all
packages recommending the package selected for removal and it informs
me about packages suggesting the package, but doesn't suggest removal).
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux spinnaker 2.0.36 #1 Wed Mar 10 15:52:37 CET 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
hi libc6 2.1.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
hi libstdc++2.9-gl 2.91.66-1 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
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