How shall I report a bug in the .deb packaging itself?

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Mon Dec 21 13:23:12 UTC 2015


hi,
Am Montag, den 21.12.2015, 13:35 +0100 schrieb Alberto Salvia Novella:
> Julian Andres Klode:
>  > It just happens that some of the newly installed dependencies are
> also
>  > Suggested by other installed packages, and thus are not removed,
>  > because you might have installed the package in order to extend
> the
>  > functionality of another installed package suggesting it.
> 
> sudo apt-get install cortina -y
> sudo apt-get purge cortina -y
> sudo apt-get autoremove -y
> 
well, there is a very simple solution, do not use -y  :) 
apt will tell you what it installs and you have to explicitly agree to
this, these Y/N questions are there for a reason ... 

also, an "average user" as describer on the papercuts wiki should never
even have to use apt or a terminal.

ciao
	oli
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