[Deborphan-devel] Bug#670652: deborphan treats packages on hold as uninstalled

Carsten Hey carsten at debian.org
Fri Apr 27 19:14:18 UTC 2012


* Carsten Hey [2012-04-27 21:07 +0200]:
> * Jakub Wilk [2012-04-27 17:38 +0200]:
> > As far as I can see, deborphan treats packages that are on hold like if they
> > were not installed:
> >
> > $ deborphan deborphan
> > deborphan
> >       sbuild
> >
> > $ echo 'deborphan hold' | sudo dpkg --set-selections
> >
> > $ deborphan deborphan
> > deborphan: package deborphan not found or not installed
>
> You hit the presumably only case where deborphan treats packages on hold
> as being uninstalled.

This should have been:

  You hit the presumably only case where deborphan _wrongly_ treats
  packages on hold as being uninstalled.





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