Bug#729526: ssh.deb: somewhat misleading description

[Regid Ichira <regid23@nt1.in>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 01:00:10PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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


  Indeed I had to unmarkauto first.
My point is that my understanding of the description is that I could 
remove the ssh package without unmarkauto.  Which is why I think the
description should be modified.  Am I the only one who might
understand the description this way?