Package: apt Version: 0.8.6 Severity: serious Okay, this was a WTF moment here. I was playing with python-visual on my HTPC and when done wanted to remove all the cruft again. So I ran apt-get remove --purge "... the packages ..." and it removed me half of my system (and as apt ignores ^C at the moemnt, i was not amused :()
Here is what happens when I try to re-remove the packages from my system: eiga:~# apt-get remove --purge libblas3gf libboost-python1.42.0 libboost-signals1.42.0 libboost-thread1.42.0 libcairomm-1.0-1 libgfortran3 libglade2-0 libglademm-2.4-1c2a libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkglext1 libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-0 libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a liblapack3gf libmpfr4 libpangomm-1.4-1 python-numpy python-visual Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libblas3gf is not installed, so not removed Package libboost-python1.42.0 is not installed, so not removed Package libboost-signals1.42.0 is not installed, so not removed Package libboost-thread1.42.0 is not installed, so not removed Package libcairomm-1.0-1 is not installed, so not removed Package libgfortran3 is not installed, so not removed Package libglibmm-2.4-1c2a is not installed, so not removed Package libgtkglext1 is not installed, so not removed Package libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-0 is not installed, so not removed Package libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a is not installed, so not removed Package liblapack3gf is not installed, so not removed Package libglade2-0 is not installed, so not removed Package libglademm-2.4-1c2a is not installed, so not removed Package libpangomm-1.4-1 is not installed, so not removed Package python-numpy is not installed, so not removed Package python-visual is not installed, so not removed The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libsmbclient libts-0.0-0 libtalloc2 libswscale0 libcdio10 python-bluez python2.5-minimal libusplash0 libavutil50 liblcms1 libidn11 libsamplerate0 libx264-104 ttf-liberation libsvga1 libsdl-mixer1.2 libglew1.5 libcap2 libspeex1 libapr1 libwbclient0 libboost-iostreams1.40.0 python-central libass4 libmpfr1ldbl python2.5 libsdl1.2debian-alsa libwavpack1 libmysqlclient16 libavcodec52 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libx264-88 liblog4cxx10 libx264-98 libsdl-image1.2 python-qt3 libmp3lame0 libenca0 libsdl1.2debian python-sip libcurl3 libmikmod2 libvpx0 libssh2-1 libtheora0 liba52-0.7.4 libpostproc51 liblzo2-2 libvorbisfile3 libflac8 liborc-0.4-0 libgsm1 libvorbisenc2 linux-headers-2.6.32-3-common libasyncns0 libschroedinger-1.0-0 libavformat52 libxvidcore4 tsconf libmad0 libdb4.5 libsysfs2 libopencore-amrnb0 openssl libapt-pkg-perl libpulse0 libcurl3-gnutls libqt3-mt libdirac-encoder0 usplash-theme-debian libglu1-mesa librtmp0 libvorbis0a libopenjpeg2 libaudio2 libaprutil1 mysql-common libopencore-amrwb0 ca-certificates lsb-release dpatch libsndfile1 libmng1 libmpeg2-4 libmms0 libogg0 libfaac0 libfaad2 libsmpeg0 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: build-essential* cpp* cpp-4.3* cpp-4.4* dkms* g++* g++-4.4* gcc* gcc-4.3* gcc-4.4* libmpfr4* libstdc++6-4.4-dev* linux-headers-2.6-amd64* linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64* nvidia-glx* nvidia-kernel-dkms* x11-utils* xbmc* xbmc-bin* xbmc-data* xbmc-skin-confluence* xbmc-standalone* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 22 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 136 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ^C None of the requested packages are installed and apt still tries to remove something completelly different (rendering the system unusable as its only purpose is running xbmc :)) Report not written on the machine failing, thus no apt configuration files included. These are all default on "eiga". -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-2 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none> (no description available) ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.5 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.98.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
