On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Celejar wrote: > ~$ aptitude show diff > Package: diff > Essential: yes > State: installed > Automatically installed: no > Version: 1:2.8.1-18 > Priority: extra > Section: oldlibs > Maintainer: Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> > Uncompressed Size: 32.8k > PreDepends: diffutils > 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. > > So this seems to be an aptitude bug. I notice a possibly related bug: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548505 > > But the explanation given there by the aptitude maintainer doesn't seem > to cover this case, since 'diff' is not marked 'Important' (and is > not named 'apt' :)). Should I file a new bug there, or do you want to > assign this bug to him?
Feel free to reopen and reassign to aptitude, if using aptitute is how you tried to remove "diff". If you do so, look for the same bug and merge them if you see that they are essentially the "same" bug. BTW: apt does also suffer from this, see Bug#216768 for example. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
