Bug#74928: APT should be an essential package

[Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: normal

OK, I know it was dumb, but I accidentally hit '_' in dselect when I was
on the "Installed Packages" line.

APT was smart enough to tell me that various essential packages were
going to be removed, but it omitted mention of itself!  I fixed the
problem with essential packages and managed to remove APT itself at
which point things became less straightforward to fix.

Could APT be an essential package too?  I don't think there can be
too many people out there who don't consider it such now.


-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux heidegger 2.2.17 #1 Fri Sep 8 07:05:54 NZST 2000 i586

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.1.94-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10                1:2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library