Questions regarding PACKAGES remove

[Anders Jackson]

Hi Andreas.

You might want to file a bug on Firefox for this. Wouldn't it be easy
to suggest to them to have the old package have a dependency to plain
Firefox for those packages?

Or at least get an explanation if it is correct way.  But I think it's
just an oversight from them.

/Jackson

fre 2019-03-22 klockan 09:49 +0100 skrev Andreas Heinlein:
> Am 21.03.19 um 18:40 schrieb Thomas Lange:
> > Hi Andreas,
> > 
> > I wonder why you get this error, because apt-get says it does not
> > even
> > know this package. If I like to remove a package that's in the
> > database I get this output
> > 
> > veedel[~]# apt-get purge moon-buggy
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Package 'moon-buggy' is not installed, so not removed
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
> > 
> > Maybe you may have removed some sources.list entries, so apt-get
> > complains about unknown packages.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> your are right, the root of the problem is that these packages have
> been
> removed completely from debian stable. These are XUL style firefox
> extensions which are not supported in recent firefox versions
> anymore.
> So the debian maintainers obviously decided, instead of providing a
> dummy transitional package, to completely remove them. I have never
> before seen a package being removed from stable... So now it looks
> like
> they never existed, even though machines installed earlier still have
> them installed.
> 
> But this is, hopefully, a special case that will not happen again, so
> I
> will solve this by using a script instead. This is not a bug in FAI.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Andreas
> 
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