Hi APT team, The xz-utils package in experimental Conflicts/Replaces/Provides the pseudo-essential package lzma. I think this should be fine, since installing it only involves overwriting the lzma package rather than removing it. Indeed, with dpkg or aptitude it installs fine, and /var/log/dpkg.log does not mention removing lzma. On the other hand, apt-get decides it needs to remove lzma, resulting in the message
| WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. | This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! | lzma (due to dpkg) See bug #542060 [1] for the full output. APT bug #169241 [2] also looks related. Am I misunderstanding policy here? Is apt-get’s behavior useful? If not, any pointers for one who wants to fix it? In either case, is there a standard workaround? Thanks, Jonathan [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/542060> “xz-utils - Conflicts with pseudo-essential package” [2] <http://bugs.debian.org/169241> “Requires strong confirmation when replacing an essential package” -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
