Re: Bug#34223: Bug #34223: APT removes essential packages.
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 12:27:25AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> reassign 34223 packaging-manual
> thanks
>
> Well, whatever you want Santiago. This is an essential APT feature, I will
> not remove it just because it offends you.
Uh? AFAICT, he's not asking you to remove it. He's suggesting you to ask
for a change on the packaging-manual, as it currently forbids apt
behaviour. (For the record, I do like the "analprompt" in new apt
versions). (For the record again, IIRC "analprompt" is the "official"
name, as that's how it's called in apt sources).
I think the "dselect methods" chapter doesn't belong in the packaging
manual. It says nothing about how to make a package. It talks about
technical details in dselect's interface for its methods. It should be
moved to a dpkg technical manual.
> > Therefore, I still see here a contradiction between what packaging manual
> > says a dselect method should do, and what apt actually does.
> >
> > I'm reopening this bug since a contradiction still remains (for this
> > reason I'm doing a retitle as well). If you think this contradiction
> > should be solved by changing the packaging manual, please reassign this
> > bug to the packaging-manual package (which is maintained by the
> > debian-policy mailing list), I will not object to you making this
> > reassign, but I think it should be you the one to do it.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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