[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#945192: purging sextractor also purges source-extractor

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: sextractor
Version: 2.25.0+ds-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
According to it's Detailed Description, it seems sextractor is a dummy
package with the new update as can be seen below -

$ aptitude show sextractor
Package: sextractor
Version: 2.25.0+ds-2
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Priority: optional
Section: science
Maintainer: Debian Astronomy Maintainers
<debian-astro-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 30.7 k
Depends: source-extractor
Description: Dummy transitional package for name change
 The original package name is seen as no longer appropriate by the
astrophysics community, triggering a name change. This package ensures
a smooth transition to the new package name. The transitional package
can be safely removed.
Homepage: https://www.astromatic.net/software/sextractor
Tags: field::astronomy, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::application,
use::converting,works-with-format::TODO, works-with::image,
works-with::image:raster

Now trying to purge it, it does things differently though -

$ sudo aptitude purge sextractor
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  sextractor{p} source-extractor{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1,276 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.

So seems something is wrong somewhere. Maybe it will need another
update to orphan it or something or maybe it will just be orphaned ?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (100,
'unstable-debug'), (100, 'experimental'), (100, 'unstable'), (50,
'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages sextractor depends on:
ii  source-extractor  2.25.0+ds-2

sextractor recommends no packages.

sextractor suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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