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Re: Small bug in apt-cache with pseudo-inexistent packages?



On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:56:47PM +0200, Marc-Jano Knopp <pub_br_apt@marc-jano.de> was heard to say:
> What package is referring to package "irssi"? When I run "apt-cache
> depends irssi", I get a line containing only "<irssi>" as output -
> the same with "apt-cache rdepends irssi".

  Several packages, such as irssi-text, conflict with irssi.  The angle
brackets appear (from a quick empirical test) to indicate that the package
is not a real package (it exists only because something refers to it).

  Daniel

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