Hello Lars, I looked at both these packages and they are not in the repository anymore. Probable a development thing.
2008/11/13 Peter Hoogkamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Lars, > > I was updating on Jaunty today and found 2 packages in Cruft Remover > which are in "local or obsolete" within Synaptic (doc-base and > libgnomevfs2-common). These packages cannot be removed. On the other > hand are there linux-image packages in "local or obsolete" which are > not listed in cruft remover. I have added a screenshot an will try to > figure out what the difference is between the listed packages. > > Tux > > 2008/11/11 Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> ** Description changed: >> >> After a clean installation I ran the cruft removal tool (from >> System->Administration) and a whole load of packages were ticked - I >> applied this and after 20 minutes saw that the majority of my installed >> desktop packages were removed. This cleaned up more than left over >> cruft(!). >> >> ISO test image: >> >> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20081027/intrepid-desktop-amd64.iso >> >> Test: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/result/2092/10 >> >> + SUMMARY FOR SRU: A subset of users can render their systems unusable, by >> + accidentally removing some packages needed for the system to work or, in >> + some cases, all or most packages. This has been handled by checking that >> + two essential packages (dash and gzip) are available in the Packages >> + files, according to apt, and aborting if not. The regression risk for >> + this change is that users might not be able to use the tool at all if >> + the new test is too aggressive, but since update-manager uses the same >> + heuristic, it should work very well. >> + >> + PATCH: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~systemcleaner-hackers/systemcleaner >> + /intrepid-sru-1-proposal/changes (revision 108). >> + >> TEST CASE: Install without network access ("kvm -net none" suffices). >> After installation, install system-cleaner, and verify that "sudo >> system-cleaner find" finds a lot of cruft (at least several tens and >> possibly hundreds of packages). Install fixed system-cleaner (enabling >> networking is fine, as long as nothing runs "apt-get update"), and >> verify that "sudo system-cleaner find" returns nothing. >> >> -- >> Cruft Remover removed most of the installed packages >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290024 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of the bug. >> > -- Cruft Remover removed most of the installed packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290024 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
