Having been caught by a pulseaudio 'update', I wanted to make sure it is OK to proceed. Synaptic describes the package to be removed as
NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities
The Linux-NTFS project aims to bring full support for the NTFS filesystem to
the Linux operating system. Linux-NTFS currently consists of a static library
and utilities. This package contains the following utilities:
ntfscat: concatenate files and print them on the standard output
ntfsclone: efficiently clone an NTFS filesystem
ntfscluster: identify files in a specified region of an NTFS volume
mkntfs: format a partition with the NTFS filesystem
ntfsfix: tool for fixing NTFS partitions altered by the Linux kernel NTFS driver
ntfsinfo: dump a file's attributes
ntfslabel: display/change the label on an ntfs file system
ntfsls: list directory contents on an NTFS file system
ntfsresize: resize an NTFS filesystem
ntfsundelete: recover a deleted file from an NTFS volume
Updates of 9 packages are dependent on ntfsprogs being removed.
