[Bug 2147638] Re: Make coreutils-from-gnu a possible dependency for build-essential

[Renato Botelho]

It's interesting to note that moving from coreutils-from-uutils to
coreutils-from-gnu makes it impossible to build deb packages on the
system since `build-essential` is an implicit build-time dependency for
any package

** Summary changed:

- Create a virtual package for coreutils
+ Make coreutils-from-gnu a possible dependency for build-essential

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Title:
  Make coreutils-from-gnu a possible dependency for build-essential

Status in build-essential package in Ubuntu:
  New
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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