Control: severity -1 important Control: reassign -1 apt 2.1.20 Hi David,
thanks for having a look at this. David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 08:12:06AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > I though have no idea why apt regards manpages-de as > > essential. X-Debbugs-Cc'ing the APT developers at > > Does the output of > $ apt rdepends manpages-de --important > include more than task-german and parl-desktop-eu? Correct: $ apt rdepends manpages-de --important manpages-de Reverse Depends: Depends: kiva-users Depends: task-german Depends: task-german Depends: parl-desktop-eu > In particular, does it include a local metapackage which is tagged > Essential/Important:yes? Correct: Package: kiva-users Source: abe-metapackages […] Depends: […], manpages-de, […] Important: yes Full control file stanza at https://github.com/xtaran/abe-metapackages/blob/master/debian/control#L1243-L1333 Binary package at https://noone.org/apt/pool/main/a/abe-metapackages/kiva-users_19_all.deb > (Important packages are considered like Essential which here is probably > wrong as we shouldn't make ordering guarantees for it… but then, > I guess that is part of why libgcc ↔ libgcc_s works now. And btw: The > commandline flag stands for "important dependencies", which in this > case is Depends and Pre-Depends, What I don't understand is, that apt claims that manpages-de is Essential (or Important, whatever) just because an Essential (or Important…) package depends on it. I do see that it might want to apply similar rules for dependencies of Essential packages, but the phrase "the essential package manpages-de:amd64" is nevertheless extremly misleading and not helpful. > it has nothing to do with the > Important flag or the other billion things also called important) Downgrading to important (sic!) as a first measure and reassigning then to apt. P.S. to Toddy and Helge: Sorry for the noise. You already had enough trouble with manpages-de in the last few weeks. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
