[Deborphan-devel] Bug#703610: deborphan: man page mixes up dummy and transitional packages

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: deborphan
Version: 1.7.28.8
Severity: normal

The deborphan(1) man page mixes up dummy and transitional packages:

    dummy  This option tries to find dummy packages, i.e. packages with
           dummy or transitional in their short description.

But a transitional package (a package with "transitional" in its
short description) isn't necessarily a dummy package, i.e. such a
package may contain executables, like ffmpeg:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692193#29

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.8-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages deborphan depends on:
ii  libc6  2.13-38

Versions of packages deborphan recommends:
ii  apt           0.9.7.8
ii  dialog        1.1-20120215-3
ii  gettext-base  0.18.1.1-10

deborphan suggests no packages.

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