On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 16:56 +0200, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > Source: hw-detect > Version: 1.147 > Severity: normal > User: de...@kali.org > Usertags: origin-kali > > Dear Maintainer, > > The package open-vm-tools 11.3.5, released in January 2022, depends on > fuse3 rather than fuse [1]. > > As a consequence, hw-detect fails to install open-vm-tools if ever the > package fuse was already installed. This is because installing fuse3 > would cause the removal of fuse, and removals are not allowed. > > This can be seen in the logs of the installer: > > in-target: The following additional packages will be installed: > in-target: ethtool fuse3 libatkmm-1.6-1v5 libcairomm-1.0-1v5 libfuse3-3 > in-target: libglibmm-2.4-1v5 libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 libmspack0 libpangomm-1.4-1v5 > in-target: libsigc++-2.0-0v5 open-vm-tools zerofree > in-target: Suggested packages: > in-target: cloud-init > in-target: The following packages will be REMOVED: > in-target: fuse > in-target: The following NEW packages will be installed: > in-target: ethtool fuse3 libatkmm-1.6-1v5 libcairomm-1.0-1v5 libfuse3-3 > in-target: libglibmm-2.4-1v5 libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 libmspack0 libpangomm-1.4-1v5 > in-target: libsigc++-2.0-0v5 open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop zerofree > in-target: 0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > in-target: E: Packages need to be removed but remove is disabled. > > In practice, it hits Kali Linux users, as reported in [2]. For some > reasons, fuse gets installed if users install the KDE desktop for Kali. [...]
You should find out why that is, before proposing to override it. What if something in KDE really does need FUSE 2? (Since you found that removing fuse doesn't remove anything else, this implies that the relationship is only a Recommends and not a Depends. But that doesn't mean that removal won't break anything.) If we find that it's not really needed, then a better fix may be to remove the recommendation(s) or change them to "fuse3 | fuse". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
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