Re: Bug#34223: Bug #34223: APT removes essential packages.
reassign 34223 packaging-manual
thanks
Well, whatever you want Santiago. This is an essential APT feature, I will
not remove it just because it offends you.
Jason
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> reopen 34223
> severity 34223 normal
> retitle 34223 apt and packaging manual are in contradiction
> thanks
>
[..]
>
> 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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