Am 28.11.18 um 07:06 schrieb Mike Hommey: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 06:45:11AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Control: clone -1 >> Control: reassign -1 firefox-esr 60.3.0esr-2 >> >> Am 28.11.18 um 06:39 schrieb Michael Biebl: >> >>> Please consider dropping old versions of libavcodec from the alternative >>> Recommends list so obsolete libraries can be properly autoremoved. >> >> Manually purging libavcodec57 frees up 32.7MB of disk space: >> >> # apt purge libavcodec57 --autoremove >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> The following packages will be REMOVED: >> libavcodec57* libavutil55* libswresample2* libx264-152* libx265-160* >> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 1 not upgraded. >> After this operation, 32.7 MB disk space will be freed. >> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] >> >> >> firefox-esr has the same problem, so cloning the bug report accordingly. > > I'd argue apt purge should be able to remove libavcodec57 on its own,
I can't see how that could work as long as there is still a package referencing libavcodec57. That said, I know too little about the apt internals to argue why apt behaves the way it does. If you are convinced this is a bug in apt, would you mind filing a bug report against apt and blocking this bug reportbug with it? > assuming you have libavcodec58 installed (since the recommends is for > one of them). Also note that libavcodec57 is still in unstable... libavcodec57 is no longer installable in unstable due to libx264-152 being missing. Afaics, the old ffmpeg-3 binaries simply haven't been decrufted yet. Is there a good reason to keep the old Recommends around as alternatives? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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