Package: apt
Version: 1.5
Severity: important
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Control: affects -1 + fdisk-dbgsym mount-dbgsym
Hi,
during a test with piuparts I noticed that apt refuses to remove the
"essential" fdisk-dbgsym and mount-dbgsym packages. I have no idea where
apt gets the idea that these are essential.
This happens in sid and buster chroots.
0m22.3s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/srv/piuparts/tmp/tmptrow8E',
'apt-get', 'remove', 'mount-dbgsym']
0m22.8s DUMP:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mount-dbgsym
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
mount-dbgsym
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
E: Essential packages were removed and -y was used without
--allow-remove-essential.
0m22.8s ERROR: Command failed (status=100): ['chroot',
'/srv/piuparts/tmp/tmptrow8E', 'apt-get', 'remove', 'mount-dbgsym']
Andreas
