Please change deborphan recommends to whiptail | dialog
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deborphan (Baltix) |
New
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Undecided
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deborphan (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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deborphan (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: deborphan
Most Ubuntu and Debian packages that depend on dialog package specify whiptail as an alternative. Would it be possible to make it so for deborphan as well? It's the only package preventing me from removing dialog in favor of the other.
Whiptail package is in Ubuntu main archive, while dialog is in universe, so, please change deborphan recommends to "whiptail | dialog"
Few years ago such bugreport was reported in Debian BTS (http://
Changed in deborphan: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Javier Kohen wrote:
> Package: deborphan
> Version: 1.7.15
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Most Debian packages that depend on dialog specify whiptail as an
> alternative. Would it be possible to make it so for deborphan as well?
> It's the only package preventing me from removing dialog in favor of
> the other.
orphaner used to run with whiptail a long time ago but last time I
checked it didn't work.
If you send a patch that makes orphaner work with whiptail then I'm sure
we could do that.
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