Hi Am 07.03.25 um 10:58 schrieb Simon McVittie:
If the alternative dependency on usr-is-merged is a practical problem for whatever reason, now that the required version of base-files has been around for a while we could remove that, leaving only base-files.
My experience is, that "apt autoremove" will not remove obsolete transitional packages, as long as an installed package still references it, even if it's only an alternative dependency [*].
For "apt autoremove" to work, the package must be in state "auto" though. If that's the case for usr-is-merged I'm not quite sure. Probably not for bookworm systems where usr-is-merged is installed as part of debootstrap iirc.
Regards, Michael[*] That's why I'm not a huge fan of the "polkitd | policykit-1" alternative dependencies and only used them where backportability is important.
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