Below I launch a a.) trusty lxd container, b.) enable proposed c.) install pollinate from proposed d.) attempt to remove the package that provides /usr/bin/xxd
The output of 'd' shows that removal of vim-common would also remove pollinate, showing that the dependency is correct. $ name="t-1656484" $ lxc launch ubuntu-daily:trusty t-1656484 Creating t-1656484 Starting t-1656484 $ sleep 10 # let it boot $ mirror=http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $ plist="/etc/apt/sources.list.d/proposed.list" $ echo deb $mirror trusty-proposed main | lxc exec $name tee $plist $ lxc exec "$name" sh -c " echo deb $mirror \$(lsb_release -sc) main > $plist" $ lxc exec "$name" -- apt-get update -q $ lxc exec "$name" -- apt-get install -q pollinate ... Unpacking pollinate (4.23-0ubuntu1~14.04.2) over (4.23-0ubuntu1~14.04) ... ... Setting up pollinate (4.23-0ubuntu1~14.04.2) ... $ lxc exec "$name" -- which xxd /usr/bin/xxd $ lxc exec "$name" -- dpkg -S /usr/bin/xxd vim-common: /usr/bin/xxd $ lxc exec "$name" -- apt-get --dry-run remove vim-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libfreetype6 os-prober Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: pollinate ubuntu-minimal vim vim-common vim-tiny 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Remv pollinate [4.23-0ubuntu1~14.04.2] Remv ubuntu-minimal [1.325] Remv vim [2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1] Remv vim-tiny [2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1] Remv vim-common [2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1] ** Tags removed: verification-needed-trusty ** Tags added: verification-done-trusty ** Tags removed: verification-needed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656484 Title: /usr/bin/pollinate uses xxd but does not depend on vim-common To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pollinate/+bug/1656484/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
