ncurses upgrade to 5.0 left a dangling package behind
Under potato, after dselect upgraded ncurses to 5.0-X, one of the
older ncurses packages was left behind (ncurses-base 4.2). It now
shows as obsolete, but I'm a bit uncertain as to whether I should just
go ahead and remove it by brutal force. Can something break if I do
so?
,----[ Dselect buffer ]
| ------ Obsolete/local Required packages in section base ------
| *** Req base ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 <none>
`----
If I try to purge it, I get a very scary warning:
,----[ Scary warning ]
| The following packages will be REMOVED:
| ncurses-base*
| WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
| This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
| ncurses-base
| 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 76.8kB will be freed.
| You are about to do something potentially harmful
| To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this may be bad'
| ?]
`----
Thanks for any input!
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