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Bug#182369: apt: man page doesn't say what asterisk upon remove means



Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz

the user does

   # apt-get --purge remove ipchains
   Reading Package Lists... Done
   Building Dependency Tree... Done
   The following packages will be REMOVED:
     ipchains* 

OK, but nowhere does it say what that "*" means
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.20-k7 #1 Tue Jan 14 00:29:06 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-10    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library

-- no debconf information




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