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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: diff should not be an essential package
- From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:35:00 +0200
- Message-id: <20090831213500.GA9067@xvii.vinc17.org>
Package: diff
Version: 1:2.8.1-16
Severity: normal
The description of diff says:
Description: dummy transitional package for diff -> diffutils
This is a dummy package to aid in transitioning from diff to diffutils.
It may be safely removed after upgrading to squeeze.
(from "dpkg -s diff") and the package contains nothing except in
/usr/share/doc/diff. But apt-get doesn't want to remove it:
# apt-get remove diff
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
diff
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
diff
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
After this operation, 32.8kB disk space will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
?]
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages diff depends on:
ii diffutils 1:2.8.1-16 File comparison utilities
diff recommends no packages.
diff suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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