On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:02:09PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 03:56:24AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Now that's indeed unexpected. Can you check what "apt-config dump | > > fgrep -i Move-Autobit-Sections" yields for you? > > Transcript of my test: > > |root@warren:/# apt-config dump | fgrep -i Move-Autobit-Sections
The autobit-moving happens for installed packages which change their section to one of the mentioned sections on upgrade. Such upgrades will remove the manual-installed marker from the now "oldlibs" package and move it to the dependencies so that the oldlibs package will be cleaned up automatically if nothing depends on it anymore – or if the user wants to keep it for whatever reason just has to tell apt once about it. > |root@warren:/# apt install qalculate > |The following NEW packages will be installed: > | […] qalculate qalculate-gtk […] But the setup in this bug is a new installation of the "oldlibs" package. There is no moving done here: Imagine installing libc5 to run some really old thingy and apt continuously nagging you to remove it because it happens to be in "oldlibs"… can't be done, hence the complicated one-time move on section-changing upgrades. So, at least from an apt PoV (and like aptitude as well) this works as intended although I see what you mean and agree that it is a bit sad that you have to explicitly tell your package manager that you want to keep qalculate-gtk after you figured out that you have needlessly installed qalculate, but I don't see how we can improve this interaction without breaking (or annoying) other usecases [In an ideal world you would figure that out before installing qalculate as you are reading descriptions and co before installation of course] – if there are good ideas we could implement I would be happy to hear them! Best regards David Kalnischkies
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