Public bug reported:
When there is some package A that depends on either B or C, the
following happens:
When user uninstalls B, installation of C is forced. If the user then
uninstalls C, installation of B is forced. This leaves the user puzzled,
not knowing how to get rid of B and C.
I observed this with packages "firefox" and "thunderbird" being B and C,
and package A being "xul-ext-mozvoikko". This happened in Lubuntu 16.04,
with Synaptic v0.83. I realized what the root cause was only after
forcing the uninstallation of Thunderbird from command line using dpkg
and then starting Synaptic and finding a broken package there.
I think the preferred behaviour would be for Synaptic to:
- Explain the situation and let the user choose whether package A should also
be uninstalled or B installed instead.
- At least explain what is going on: why uninstalling one package forces the
installation of another.
Thank you for considering this buggish feature.
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Uninstalling one package forces installation of another without
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