Re: Removing old orphaned packages?

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:
> * Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> [2005-06-14 16:48]:
>> I'm jumping into a thread where I wasn't particularly asked, but in
>> case it's useful I also read through all of these and I agree with

> Thanks for your comments.

>>> xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2 -- 100 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers. [#237476]

>> This went away, didn't it?  I seem to remember seeing this get removed as
>> part of an apt-get dist-upgrade.

> No, it seems it is still around.

> 14374:tbm@merkel: ~] madison xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2
> xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2 |   3.0.0-14 |     oldstable | source
> xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2 |   3.0.0-15 |        stable | source
> xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2 |   3.0.0-15 |       testing | source
> xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2 |   3.0.0-16 |      unstable | source

Oh, I see what happened.  The binary package by the same name went away,
but the source package is still there.  xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2 now
builds an xfonts-biznet-base package which conflicts with the binary
package xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2.

Kind of confusing.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>