Debian Bug report logs - #544481
[apt] apt mixes essential flag from all sources

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Package: apt; Maintainer for apt is APT Development Team <[email protected]>; Source for apt is src:apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Affects: aptitude

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:42:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 216768, 261411, 553354, 565775, 594116, 610431

Found in versions 0.5.27, 0.5.4, apt/0.7.20.2+lenny1, apt/0.7.23.1, apt/0.8.10.1

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reassign 544481 aptitude
severity 544481 critical
retitle 544481 aptitude installed non-essential diff 2.8.1-16 as essential
thanks

On 2009-09-01 02:27:33 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Nonsense.
> 
> Is I said, and you can check from the source, the diff dummy packahge
> is not essential anymore.
> 
> What exactly do you expect me to do with a bug saying "diff should not
> be essential", when it already is *not*?
> 
> I could help you to determine what's wrong in your system, but *not*
> on the basis that I have to do something that I've *already* done, namely,
> dropping the Essential flag from the diff package.

Then this means that aptitude (or dpkg?) broke my system.

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