How can we figure out if a package is core or not?

[Thomas Ward]

I think it's relevant to read this discussion and the whole related
chain to see how this decision on determining core/noncore had come
forth, Alberto -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-bugsquad/2012-August/003869.html
(This email was linked from Brian Murray on the -quality IRC channel)


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Thomas

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella
<es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thomas Ward:
>>
>> Running `apt-cache
>> show pff-tools` actually shows the information even though the package
>> is not installed.
>
>
> Yes, but it doesn't show if there's a task related with the package. So it
> doesn't help figuring out if the package is core or not.
>
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