Re: Bug#552677: install-info changes
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:46:59PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net>, 2009-11-17, 12:30:
> [...]
> > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
> > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
> > install-info (due to sed)
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > After this operation, 258kB disk space will be freed.
> > You are about to do something potentially harmful.
> > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' ?] ^C
> [...]
> >Why does apt-get want to remove sed? Doesn't dpkg satisfy the depends?
>
> It wants to remove install-info, not sed.
Of course it wants to remove install-info, that is because I told it to.
However install-info isn't essential, so why is it saying otherwise?
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net>
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