Bug#548505: aptitude reports incorrectly essential packages

2016-03-05 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Control: tags -1 + pending Hi all, 2009-10-07 15:51 Daniel Burrows: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 06:32:22PM +0200, Vincenzo Tibullo was heard to say: 2009/10/5 Daniel Burrows : > Internally, aptitude maps "~E" to testing the flags "essential" or >"important".   I think this is not what user exp

Bug#548505: aptitude reports incorrectly essential packages

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 06:32:22PM +0200, Vincenzo Tibullo was heard to say: > 2009/10/5 Daniel Burrows : > > Internally, aptitude maps "~E" to testing the flags "essential" or > >"important".   > > I think this is not what user expect. True. "important" is not a concept that's documented an

Bug#548505: aptitude reports incorrectly essential packages

2009-10-06 Thread Vincenzo Tibullo
2009/10/5 Daniel Burrows : On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 06:45:06PM +0200, Vincenzo Tibullo was heard to say: The following command     aptitude search ~E | grep apt gives the following output     i   apt                             - Advanced front-end for dpkg so reporting apt as essential, bu

Bug#548505: aptitude reports incorrectly essential packages

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 06:45:06PM +0200, Vincenzo Tibullo was heard to say: > The following command > > aptitude search ~E | grep apt > > gives the following output > > i apt - Advanced front-end for dpkg > > so reporting apt as essential, but apt is no

Bug#548505: aptitude reports incorrectly essential packages

2009-09-26 Thread Vincenzo Tibullo
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b2 Severity: normal The following command aptitude search ~E | grep apt gives the following output i apt - Advanced front-end for dpkg so reporting apt as essential, but apt is not essential, as can be seen by one o