[Bug 1780316] Re: netcat-openbsd is in main but netcat-standard has a netcat dummy package

[Robert C Jennings]

This issue crops up on the Bionic minimal cloud images which don't have
netcat-openbsd installed by default (it is in the Xenial image).  When
docker.io is installed with recommends it pulls in netcat-standard (via
ubuntu-fan).

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Title:
  netcat-openbsd is in main but netcat-standard has a netcat dummy
  package

Status in netcat package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in netcat-openbsd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  For installations that don't have netcat-openbsd somewhere in the seed
  then any package/user that installs 'netcat' will get 'netcat-
  standard' from universe rather than 'netcat-openbsd' from main. (One
  example is the ubuntu-fan package that recommends netcat)

  Suggested action:
  * Remove the 'netcat' dummy package from the netcat-standard package
  * Add a 'netcat' dummy package to the netcat-openbsd package

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