[ubuntu-uk] Dummy transitional package

[Simon Greenwood]

On 22 November 2013 16:26, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> I was looking to uninstall deja dup as it keeps hogging 85-90% of my cpu,
> whilst in synaptic I found the package "ttf-dejavu-core" which tells me
> that it is a "dummy transitional package. It can safely be removed" , but
> when I try and remove it it says another 7 packages depend on it, including
> clementine & xbmc (which I use regularly!)
>
> Why does it say it can safely be removed when it obviously can't ?
>
> Note this is not a tech problem, just me trying to learn!
>
>
I think that's a font package and one of the core ones in use by Ubuntu or
it was and it's been removed, and the dummy package is keeping the other
packages it depends on happy. In 12.10 at least the package you're looking
for is deja-dup 24.0-0ubuntu2.

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