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Package: piuparts
Version: 1.4.4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I observed errors in recent piuparts run of zfs-linux [1]. dracut 103-2
adds init as its dependency, i.e. there is an dep chain:
zfs-dracut -> dracut -> dracut-core -> init
When piuparts tries to uninstall zfs-dracut, it would also remove all
its dependencies, including init, thus hitting an APT error:
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
> init systemd-sysv (due to init)
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 74 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> E: Essential packages were removed and -y was used without
> --allow-remove-essential.
However, dracut itself does not encounter such error [2] thanks to an
exception rule [3].
Adding zfs-dracut could definitely eliminate this error. Yet all pkgs
depending on dracut (or any pkg in this exception list) will be affected
by this, if I understand how piuparts works correctly.
So I think it might be better to allow some "transitivity", i.e., if any
package has a transitive dependency in this list, then the exception
should also apply to it.
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/zfsonlinux-team/zfs/-/jobs/6380796/raw
[2]: https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/pass/dracut_103-2.log
[3]:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/piuparts/-/commit/f0f1b5e83c704cb08c6cf32757b05e9c8946f3c1
Thanks,
Shengqi Chen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: piuparts
Source-Version: 1.6.0
Done: Nicolas Dandrimont <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
piuparts, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Nicolas Dandrimont <[email protected]> (supplier of updated piuparts package)
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:02:58 +0100
Source: piuparts
Architecture: source
Version: 1.6.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: piuparts developers team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Nicolas Dandrimont <[email protected]>
Closes: 1010967 1036399 1084173 1092667 1095408
Changes:
piuparts (1.6.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Ignore /var/cache/debconf/tmp.ci/ (Closes: #1092667)
* Extend allow-database policy-rc.d for firebird4.0 (Closes: #1095408)
* Support versioned provides in metapackage generation
* Record and ignore files affected by systemd-tmpfiles (Closes: #1036399)
* Always use --allow-remove-essential on removals (Closes: #1010967,
#1084173)
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