Comment 20 for bug 290024

Hello Lars,

I looked at both these packages and they are not in the repository
anymore. Probable a development thing.

2008/11/13 Peter Hoogkamer <email address hidden>:
> Hello Lars,
>
> I was updating on Jaunty today and found 2 packages in Cruft Remover
> which are in "local or obsolete" within Synaptic (doc-base and
> libgnomevfs2-common). These packages cannot be removed. On the other
> hand are there linux-image packages in "local or obsolete" which are
> not listed in cruft remover. I have added a screenshot an will try to
> figure out what the difference is between the listed packages.
>
> Tux
>
> 2008/11/11 Lars Wirzenius <email address hidden>:
>> ** Description changed:
>>
>> After a clean installation I ran the cruft removal tool (from
>> System->Administration) and a whole load of packages were ticked - I
>> applied this and after 20 minutes saw that the majority of my installed
>> desktop packages were removed. This cleaned up more than left over
>> cruft(!).
>>
>> ISO test image:
>>
>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20081027/intrepid-desktop-amd64.iso
>>
>> Test: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/result/2092/10
>>
>> + SUMMARY FOR SRU: A subset of users can render their systems unusable, by
>> + accidentally removing some packages needed for the system to work or, in
>> + some cases, all or most packages. This has been handled by checking that
>> + two essential packages (dash and gzip) are available in the Packages
>> + files, according to apt, and aborting if not. The regression risk for
>> + this change is that users might not be able to use the tool at all if
>> + the new test is too aggressive, but since update-manager uses the same
>> + heuristic, it should work very well.
>> +
>> + PATCH: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~systemcleaner-hackers/systemcleaner
>> + /intrepid-sru-1-proposal/changes (revision 108).
>> +
>> TEST CASE: Install without network access ("kvm -net none" suffices).
>> After installation, install system-cleaner, and verify that "sudo
>> system-cleaner find" finds a lot of cruft (at least several tens and
>> possibly hundreds of packages). Install fixed system-cleaner (enabling
>> networking is fine, as long as nothing runs "apt-get update"), and
>> verify that "sudo system-cleaner find" returns nothing.
>>
>> --
>> Cruft Remover removed most of the installed packages
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290024
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