Bug#820860: Apt sees versioned suggestions as recommends or soft depends

2016-04-15 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2016-04-15 10:50, Klaus Ethgen wrote: Hi David, Am Fr den 15. Apr 2016 um 9:54 schrieb David Kalnischkies: [...] This dash-mksh package is from a third-party repository (tg's mirbsd) and is tagged as essential ??? Partly true. That package is from the mirbsd repository that I mainly need

Bug#820860: Apt sees versioned suggestions as recommends or soft depends

2016-04-15 Thread Klaus Ethgen
Hi David, Am Fr den 15. Apr 2016 um 9:54 schrieb David Kalnischkies: > Control: retitle -1 apt: deal better with non-co-installable essentials I don't think that this is the case. See below. > Control: severity -1 minor As descripted below, I still think that this assumption is wrong. > On Th

Bug#820860: Apt sees versioned suggestions as recommends or soft depends

2016-04-15 Thread David Kalnischkies
Control: retitle -1 apt: deal better with non-co-installable essentials Control: severity -1 minor On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:06:58AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Investigating (0) dash-mksh [ amd64 ] < none -> 7 > ( shells ) > Broken dash-mksh:amd64 Kollidiert mit on dash [ amd64 ] < 0.5.8-2.2 >

Bug#820860: Apt sees versioned suggestions as recommends or soft depends

2016-04-14 Thread Klaus Ethgen
Hi David, Am Do den 14. Apr 2016 um 10:00 schrieb David Kalnischkies: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 09:45:08AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > Now cvs comes with "Suggests: mksh (>= 40~), rcs" what makes mksh always > > installed if I issue a "apt-get dist-upgrade". I had to file the > > preferences be

Bug#820860: Apt sees versioned suggestions as recommends or soft depends

2016-04-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 09:45:08AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Now cvs comes with "Suggests: mksh (>= 40~), rcs" what makes mksh always > installed if I issue a "apt-get dist-upgrade". I had to file the > preferences below to mitigate that problem. I have cvs installed on this machine, but mk

Bug#820860: Apt sees versioned suggestions as recommends or soft depends

2016-04-13 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Package: apt Version: 1.2.10 Severity: normal I found a strange problem that I only see with cvs -> mksh now. I never installed mksh on my systems willfully. But I have cvs installed on all such systems. Now cvs comes with "Suggests: mksh (>= 40~)