Bug#539578: [pbuilder] Non-functional if aptitude uninstallable (even in classic mode)

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Fri Aug 7 15:50:38 UTC 2009


Hi,

At Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:28:28 +0800,
Jason Heeris wrote:
> 
> Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 
> > Why not fix aptitude or remove it from base?
> 
> I may well be doing things wrong, but it seems impossible to do that. I
> can put it in "REMOVEPACKAGES" and it still gets installed. I should
> point out that I'm also trying to create a new base, and I get the same
> problem.
> 
> I realise that this is a known problem, and that sid can't always be
> expected to be sane:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00089.html
> 
> ...but my point is just that aptitude seems to be installed without any
> intervention from the user, and it isn't strictly necessary (again,
> maybe I'm wrong).

I don't feel that sympathetic here because I'd rather have functional
aptitude in sid all the time, and working around it isn't my priority.

However, that said, it seems like aptitude is not strictly required to
be installed, yet it is explicitly installed in create / update. I
don't quite remember why I added it, because
pbuilder-satisfydepends-aptitude does try to install aptitude.

Hmm..






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