Bug#994412: marked as done (Not easy to remove dummy package cleanly)
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regarding Not easy to remove dummy package cleanly
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Package: debian-el
Version: 37.10
When I try to remove this dummy package, aptitude says
The following packages will be REMOVED:
debian-el{p} elpa-debian-el{pu} (D: debian-el)
But other dummy packages don't trigger this in aptitude.
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積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> Well on a vanilla system I still get:
>
> # aptitude -s purge debian-el
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> debian-el{p} elpa-debian-el{u}
>
> aptitude show says:
>
> Package: elpa-debian-el
> Version: 37.10
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: yes
>
> Package: debian-el
> Version: 37.10
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
This is aptitude behaving as documented then (since
Aptitude::Delete-Unused is at it's default setting).
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s02s06.en.html
I don't know why you don't encounter the same behaviour with other
transitional packages, but there does not seem to be anything wrong with
debian-el, so closing the bug.
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