Hi, On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Long story short: I think this hack should finally be replaced with the > transition of the manual-bit on "removal" of packages. oldlibs packages > should forward their manual-bit to dependencies on remove (and the > autoremover calculate with this) just like metapackages should push > their bit downwards on removal: mydesktop depends mydesktop-core depends > browser, texteditor. On removal of browser, mydesktop-core and mydesktop > are removed as well, but the bit of mydesktop is pushed to > mydesktop-core and that state is pushed further to texteditor. Bonus > points if no pushing happens if I remove mydesktop explicitely. That > also means that if mydesktop-core decides that texteditor2 is a better > texteditor and flips to it the old obsolete texteditor (as well as the > trillion oldlibs it depends on) can leave my system via autoemove (if > I am willing to let that happen of course).
I like this! But I'm afraid that I can't justify to spend more time on this issue (neither to implement this nor to add test cases, I'm sorry). > I implemented a simple autobit forwarding for disappearing packages and > at least since then this never-markauto thing is on my list. Having it > broken entirely now might be a good excuse to finally work on it… > /me adds it to DebCamp list /me looks forward to it and I'll be at Debconf too. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org