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Bug#729526: ssh.deb: somewhat misleading description



Regid Ichira <regid23@nt1.in> writes:

>   I think noting depends on it, so I tried to remove it.

>     $ aptitude -sy remove ssh | grep -A2 REMOVED
>     The following packages will be REMOVED:
>       openssh-server{u} ssh
>     0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>    
>   I do want openssh-server.  Which doesn't strictly depend on ssh:

>     $ dpkg -p openssh-server | grep Depends | grep ' ssh'
>     $ 

This is a standard aptitude thing with anything that was installed via a
transitional package.  You need to also run:

    aptitude unmarkauto openssh-server

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


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