[Bug 2147638] [NEW] Create a virtual package for coreutils

[Renato Botelho]

Public bug reported:

It's very handy to install build-essential meta package on dev systems,
but it seems to have a hard dependency on coreutils-from-uutils.  When I
replaced it by coreutils-from-gnu by running:

sudo apt install coreutils-from-gnu coreutils-from-uutils- --allow-
remove-essential

It ended up removing build-essential meta package from my system.

It would be useful to have a virtual package for coreutils that accept
any of the available flavors and make users' lives easier to replace one
by another.

** Affects: coreutils-from (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Create a virtual package for coreutils

Status in coreutils-from package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  It's very handy to install build-essential meta package on dev
  systems, but it seems to have a hard dependency on coreutils-from-
  uutils.  When I replaced it by coreutils-from-gnu by running:

  sudo apt install coreutils-from-gnu coreutils-from-uutils- --allow-
  remove-essential

  It ended up removing build-essential meta package from my system.

  It would be useful to have a virtual package for coreutils that accept
  any of the available flavors and make users' lives easier to replace
  one by another.

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