Bug#601961: apt: wrongly thinks install-info is essential - backport fix to stable?

[Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>]

Hi,

is there a possibility to get this fixed in squeeze, too?

On Tuesday, 8. February 2011 13:17:14 Michael Vogt wrote:
>  apt (0.8.11) unstable; urgency=low
>    [ David Kalnischkies ]
>    * cmdline/apt-get.cc:
>      - show dependencies of essential packages which are going to remove
>        only if they cause the remove of this essential (Closes: #601961)

This problem shows up while running piuparts tests on the stable distribution. 
Current piuparts now uses apt-get (instead of dpkg) to remove packages with 
proper dependency ordering.


Andreas