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