Debian bug report logs - #1470, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1470: many base packages not Essential
Reply-To: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>, debian-bugs@pixar.com
Resent-From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com
Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 23:18:32 GMT
Resent-Message-ID: <debian-bugs-handler.1470.B09222314280@pixar.com>
Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk
X-Debian-PR-Package: (many)
X-Debian-PR-Keywords: 
Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 23:18:32 GMT
Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 23:14:26 GMT
Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp
	(Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sw93K-000GGnC; Fri, 22 Sep 95 07:26 PDT
Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA28451
  (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Fri, 22 Sep 1995 07:25:52 -0700
Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk
	(Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sw8l0-000C0kC; Fri, 22 Sep 95 15:07 BST
Received: by chiark
	id <m0sw74t-0002ZbZ@chiark.al.cl.cam.ac.uk>
	(Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Fri, 22 Sep 95 13:19 BST
Message-Id: <m0sw74t-0002ZbZ@chiark.al.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 13:19 BST
From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
To: Debian bugs submission address <debian-bugs@pixar.com>

Package: (many)

The following packages were in the binary/base directory on
ftp.debian.org a few days ago, but do not say `Essential: yes' in
their control files:

adduser-1.94-1    gawk-2.15.6-1     sed-2.05-4
bash-1.14.4-2     grep-2.0-3        sh-utils-1.12-3
bsdutils-1.3-1    gzip-1.2.4-6      sysklogd-1.2-11
chfn-1.0-4        hostname-1.6-2    tar-1.11.8-1
diff-2.7-3        kbd-0.90-3        textutils-1.11-2
ed-0.2-4          ld.so-1.7.7-1     timezone-7.8-1
fdflush-1.0.0-0   modules-1.2.8-1   tput-1.0-5
fileutils-3.12-2  mount-2.4-5
findutils-4.1-4   procps-0.97-4

Packages which say `Essential: yes' are protected against accidental
deinstallation - you have to say --force-remove-essential.  Packages
which do not are not.

These base packages are OK:

dpkg-0.93.75      e2fsprogs-0.5b-4  image-1.2.13-2
miscutils-1.3-2   sysvinit-2.57b-0

Ian.

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Bug#1470: Acknowledgement (was: many base packages not Essential)
In-Reply-To: <m0sw74t-0002ZbZ@chiark.al.cl.cam.ac.uk>
References: <m0sw74t-0002ZbZ@chiark.al.cl.cam.ac.uk>

Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux.
This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has
been received.  It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for
their attention; they will reply in due course.

If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send
it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject
line of your message starts with "Bug#1470" or "Re: Bug#1470" so that
we can identify it as relating to the same problem.

Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message,
unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system.

Ian Jackson
(maintainer, debian-bugs)

From debian.org!imurdock Wed Oct 11 15:48:54 1995
Return-Path: <imurdock@debian.org>
Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp
	(Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t39xF-000GqZC; Wed, 11 Oct 95 15:48 PDT
Received: from imagine.imaginit.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA11724
  (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-request-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:48:30 -0700
Received: by imagine.imaginit.com
	id <m0t3A0x-0001cHC@imagine.imaginit.com>
	(Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 11 Oct 95 17:52 EST
Message-Id: <m0t3A0x-0001cHC@imagine.imaginit.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 17:52 EST
From: imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock)
To: debian-bugs-request@pixar.com

reassign 1470 (base)