Package: apt Version: 2.9.31 Severity: wishlist
Hi, this bug report was triggered by https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1099706#20 It appears, that when moving functionality from one package (old_package) to another package (new_package) a lot of maintainers update their dependencies like this (a/): Depends/Recommends/Suggests: new_package | old_package Now, if I install new_package, "apt autoremove" will not consider the removal of old_package even though there is no reason anymore to keep this package installed. A case in point is dbus having a "Pre-Depends: base-files | usr-is-merged" in trixie at this point. This prevents the usr-is-merged package to be autoremoved. While dropping this alternative dependency on usr-is-merged is currently discussed, I think apt could handle such a situation in a more clever way as this seems to be a more widespread issue. Another recent example I can think of is the transition from policykit-1 to polkitd, where quite a few packages had a "polkitd | policykit-1" dependency due to the recommendations suggested in e.g. b/ Thanks for considering, Michael a/ I assume this is done to make backports simpler b/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1025595 https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-utopia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=policykit-1
