Bug#277964: apt: claims "unmet dependencies" when it should remove the package (lots of them)
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 09:02:21PM +0200, Jan Braun wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.27
> Severity: minor
>
> Hello,
> apt seems to have problems removing a package that is depended upon by
> a lot of packages (or a deep hierachy of packages). Trying to remove
> libnewt0.51 or whiptail from my sarge system produces bogus error
> messages, while a two-step solution (removing e.g. defoma, then removing
> libnewt0.51) works fine, so there's an easy workaround.
>
> Trying to remove libc6 looks like it would succeed, tho.
What is in /etc/apt/preferences?
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- mdz
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