Control: tag -1 pending On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 05:34:30AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.7.14+b1 > > I recently installed the latest msttcorefonts, which is now a dummy > package for the new name ttf-msttcorefonts-installer. I had previously > installed msttcorefonts manually. > > Since msttcorefonts is now a dummy package, I removed it from my system. > But because ttf-msttcorefonts-installer was installed as a dependency of > msttcorefonts, apt now suggests it for autoremoval. I think this > behavior is highly misleading. > > A potential solution would involve a package control field indicating > the status of msttcorefonts as a dummy package for > ttf-msttcorefonts-installer. That way, the "manually installed" state, > true or false, could propagate to the new package. > > Obviously, this will happen consistently in the very common case of > all dummy packages being used in Debian.
APT in git will now migrate the auto-installed state from oldlibs packages to dependencies on removal. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. Be friendly, do not top-post, and follow RFC 1855 "Netiquette". - If you don't I might ignore you.
