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

Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso luisfelipe.tabera at unican.es
Mon Dec 21 15:46:56 UTC 2015


On lunes, 21 de diciembre de 2015 16:10:31 (CET) Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> Julian Andres Klode:
>  > If A suggests B, and you install B in some way, you may have come to
>  > rely on the fact that A is extended by B on your system.
>  > Automatically removing B could thus cause an unexpected loss of
>  > functionality.
> 
> The point I do not understand is why after removing A, being A the only
> that recommends B from all the packages installed by the user, B is
> still considered needed.

Just a note, if you want to know why the system insists on havin a specific 
package installed, you can try the command

aptitude why $packagename




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