Bug#34223: Bug #34223: APT removes essential packages.
reopen 34223
severity 34223 normal
retitle 34223 apt and packaging manual are in contradiction
thanks
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> * These bugs have been fixed, explanations are in the bug system, read
> the man pages as well..
> Closes: #21113, #22507, #22675, #22836, #22892, #32883, #33006, #34121,
> #23984, #24685, #24799, #25001, #25019, #34223, #34296, #34355,
> #24021, #25022, #25026, #25104, #25176, #31557, #31691, #31853,
> #25458, #26019, #26433, #26592, #26670, #27100, #27100, #27601,
> #28184, #28391, #28778, #29293, #29351, #27841, #28172, #30260,
> #29382, #29441, #29903, #29920, #29983, #30027, #30076, #30112,
> #31009, #31155, #31381, #31883, #32140, #32395, #32584. #34465,
> #30383, #30441, #30472, #30643, #30827, #30324, #36425, #34596
[ Comment: I wish there were better ways to close a bug... Please, note
that the bug system shows no explanation at all about the reasons to close
this bug, and nowhere is said the exact man page where I am supposed
to look for an explanation ].
Anyway, by reading debian-testing, it seems APT has been modified so that
the user has to type the entire bible before removing an essential
package.
Well, I admit this is very "imaginative" as a workaround.
However, the packaging manual does not allow it yet
(at least not the *letter* of it).
Therefore, I still see here a contradiction between what packaging manual
says a dselect method should do, and what apt actually does.
I'm reopening this bug since a contradiction still remains (for this
reason I'm doing a retitle as well). If you think this contradiction
should be solved by changing the packaging manual, please reassign this
bug to the packaging-manual package (which is maintained by the
debian-policy mailing list), I will not object to you making this
reassign, but I think it should be you the one to do it.
Thanks.
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