Control: reassign -1 apt Hi!
On Sat, 2015-09-12 at 21:04:05 +0200, Branislav Zahradník wrote: > honestly, I have no idea where this bug exactly came from, but from behavior > it is issue in dependency resolution, which I guess is part of dpkg. This is done by the frontend, in this case apt. If there is a bug at all here, then it might be there. But I'll leave the apt maintainers to decide. Leaving some context for their benefit. > What I observed here is following scenario: > > I had packages A (depends on B) and B installed. > removing B (probably via dependencies) results to: remove A B C (unwanted C) > removing A first, than B (two commands) -> C was not affected. > On 09/12/2015 07:17 PM, Guillem Jover wrote: > >On Sat, 2015-09-12 at 04:19:30 +0200, Branislav Zahradnik wrote: > >>Package: dpkg > >>Version: 1.18.2 > >>Severity: normal > > > >>I had a problem with removing some KDE packages, leading to remove gnome. > >>After rejecting this bug from gnome package maintainer I tried to find more > >>(ie, remove packages one by one) > > > >>I had following issue (with apt-get output): > >> > >>apt-get remove libkdeui5 > >>The following extra packages will be installed: > >> libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkntlm4 libkpty4 > >>The following packages will be REMOVED: > >> libkdeui5 libkwineffects1abi5 libnepomuk4 libnepomukcore4 > >> libnepomukquery4a > >>libnepomukutils4 liboktetagui4 libsendlater4 > >>The following packages will be upgraded: > >> libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkntlm4 libkpty4 > >> > >>then I removed "be REMOVED" packages in reversed order manually without > >>getting > >>extra packages installed or upgraded. > >> > >>similar happen with: > >>apt-get remove libgpgme++2 > >>The following extra packages will be installed: > >> libreoffice-base-drivers > >>Suggested packages: > >> libjtds-java libreoffice-mysql-connector libmyodbc libmysql-java > >>libsqliteodbc tdsodbc mdbtools > >>The following packages will be REMOVED: > >> gnome libgpgme++2 libqgpgme1 libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice- > >>emailmerge libreoffice-evolution libreoffice-help-en-us > >>libreoffice-java-common > >>libreoffice-officebean libreoffice-report-builder-bin > >>libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb > >>openoffice.org openoffice.org-evolution > >> openoffice.org-help-en-us > >>The following packages will be upgraded: > >> libreoffice-base-drivers > >> > >>removing libqgpgme1 before solved problem again. > > > >Sorry, but I don't think I understand what's the problem being > >reported here. Also I don't quite see why this would be a problem in > >dpkg (instead of say the package metadata, an ongoing transition or > >apt) if there's one at all? Thanks, Guillem
