Your message dated Wed, 15 Mar 2017 06:46:28 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#856185: icedove-l10n-it wants to uninstall
thunderbird-l10n-it
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regarding icedove-l10n-it wants to uninstall thunderbird-l10n-it
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Package: icedove-l10n-it
Version: 1:45.7.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
# deborphan
libkdesu5:amd64
icedove-l10n-it:all
qml-module-qtquick-localstorage:amd64
libkfile4:amd64
# LANG=C aptitude remove icedove-l10n-it:all
The following packages will be REMOVED:
icedove-l10n-it thunderbird-l10n-it{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 27 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 953 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] ^C
So it's not safe to remove at all. I guess there is some dependency problem due
to the fact that thunderbird-l10n was pulled in as a dependency of the 1st one.
Best
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages icedove-l10n-it depends on:
ii thunderbird-l10n-it 1:45.7.1-1
icedove-l10n-it recommends no packages.
icedove-l10n-it suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1:45.8.0-1
Hello Viktor,
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:28:00PM +0000, Viktor Jägersküpper wrote:
> Dear Salvo,
>
...
> you are using 'aptitude remove' which removes not only the package
> icedove-l10n-it, but also all packages which are marked as automatically
> installed, in your case thunderbird-l10n-it. Since the debranding of
> Icedove to Thunderbird, icedove-l10n-it depends on thunderbird-l10n-it,
> so if you install icedove-l10n-it, thunderbird-l10n-it is automatically
> installed.
>
> So you are experiencing just the usual behaviour of aptitude, while apt
> behaves in another way as Carsten showed.
>
> BTW, be careful when aptitude wants to remove any package. You might
> remove a package which you actually don't want to remove.
>
> To work around this behaviour, you can mark a package which you want to
> keep as "manually installed" by
> # aptitude unmarkauto thunderbird-l10n-it
>
> and similarly for other packages which you want to keep installed, see
> the aptitude manual for further information.
ahh, thanks for that information. Indeed, I'm using apt as I'm "grew up"
with apt. But I was thinking the same after some time yesterday, there
must be a reason why aptitude want's to remove the ostensible not needed
package 'thunderbird-l10n-it{u}'.
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> icedove-l10n-it thunderbird-l10n-it{u}
The {u} stand here for unused, not needed by any other package. That's
from the view of the dependency chain correct as it was installed by
icedove-l10n-it.
Debian has no mechanism to tag such packages a needed by the other as
transitional dependent installed packages. To do so dpkg needs to be
improved and also some more flags in the package database
/var/lib/dpkg/status needs to be added. Someone wants to start a new
release goal for Buster?
So I will close this report now.
Regards
Carsten
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