Bug #24427
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Generic method “package present” does not detect and install virtual packages
Description
A generic method “package present” says it fails to install emacs on Debian 10, although it has succeded installing it at some point :
E| error install_package_with_par| Package present emacs emacs If you tried to install a virtual package, please use in place the concrete package you want to install.
Where :
root@zgent3:~# dpkg -s emacs
Package: emacs
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: editors
Installed-Size: 75
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 1:26.1+1-3.2+deb10u2
Depends: emacs-gtk (>= 1:26.1) | emacs-lucid (>= 1:26.1) | emacs-nox (>= 1:26.1)
Description: GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
This is a metapackage that will always depend on the latest
recommended Emacs variant (currently emacs-gtk).
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Also see screenshot
Files
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 2 months ago
- Subject changed from Rudder 8.1 Beta 2 - Generic method “package present” does not detect installed package on Debian 10 buster to Generic method “package present” does not detect and install virtual packages
- Target version changed from 8.1.0~beta2 to 7.3.14
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 2 months ago
- Effort required set to Large
- Priority changed from 100 to 70
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ 5 days ago
- Target version changed from 7.3.14 to 7.3.15
- Priority changed from 70 to 69