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

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 18:30, Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> wrote:
> 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.

Properly easy to backport (can't remember the details now through),
but given that it is "just" piuparts, can't --force-yes be used?
It's just the output which is wrong and i guess you don't
check the output of apt-get -- or do you?


Best regards

David Kalnischkies