Bug#303778: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#303778: webmin-core: A Suggested package is wrong.

[Martin Mewes]

Hi David,

David Roguin <droguin@ases.com.ar> wrote :
> Package: webmin-core
> Severity: minor
>
> when doing an apt-get install webmin-core these are the list of the
> Suggested Packages.
> Suggested packages:
>   swish++ lynx www-browser webmin-lvm raidtools
>
> The raidtools package, it's NOT a package any more.

<trial>

root@ds217-115-144-166:~# apt-cache policy raidtools
raidtools:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.42-33
  Version Table:
     0.42-33 0
        200 ftp://ftp.at.debian.org woody/main Packages

</trial>

hmmm ...

<trial>
root@ds217-115-144-166:~# aptitude -t testing install raidtools
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  raidtools
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 84.1kB of archives. After unpacking 262kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 ftp://ftp.at.debian.org woody/main raidtools 0.42-33 [84.1kB]
Fetched 84.1kB in 0s (112kB/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package raidtools.
(Reading database ... 78000 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking raidtools (from .../raidtools_0.42-33_i386.deb) ...
Setting up raidtools (0.42-33) ...

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
</trial>

Well, ok we should go away with this in sarge/sid.
These would be better ;-)

mdctl - Dummy package for transition to 'mdadm'.
mdadm - Manage MD devices aka Linux Software Raid

Thanks for reporting this issue.
Request forwared to maintainer ...

bis dahin/kind regards

Martin Mewes

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