Bug#877474: apt: considers fdisk-dbgsym, mount-dbgsym as essential

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

On 10/02/2017 10:13 AM, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 07:10:04AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> "essential" fdisk-dbgsym and mount-dbgsym packages. I have no idea where
>> apt gets the idea that these are essential.

> It gets the idea from the "Important" field included for those packages,

> (The field is OLD, so don't question the name if you don't have

I checked if there was some Essential: yes so I could blame it on
debhelper, but completely overlooked this innocent line :-)

Thanks, binNMU requested.

Should lintian warn about this?


Andreas