Bug#180316: dpkg: won't remove fileutils even though coreutils provides fileutils

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:27:24PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:52:30PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> > - it's a
> > long-standing known wishlist (or bug, depending on how you look at it).
> 
>  I read through the open bugs list for dpkg, but I didn't see anything about
> this problem.  The list was so long that at one point I realized I had
> forgotten what I was looking for, so I might have missed it...

Here's one:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=24934

Here's another:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=134582

Both are easily found by searching for "provide" on the bug list page.

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 - mdz