On 2026-06-07 21:00, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
On Sun, Jun 07, 2026 at 08:39:08PM +0200, Drew Parsons wrote:
The tracker page for fenics-dolfinx at
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fenics-dolfinx
currently includes an autoremoval box in "action needed" reporting
that fenics-dolfinx
is Marked for autoremoval due to getfem.
But the provided reason is not sufficient for taking any action
(beyond fixing getfem itself,
which is not always practical).
In practice if fixing getfem itself is not a solution for you, you
should do nothing as it's unlikely you will be willing to remove deps
from your package to break the chain.
On the contrary, removing deps is precisely the action I will take, if
it is feasible.
It depends on why the chain is there. Not all chains are necessary.
fenics-dolfinx does not depend on getfem,
and no package that fenics-dolfinx depends on depends on getfem.
Assuming this is true and by "depend" you also mean "build-depend", you
just need to go deeper.
Well, yes, hence this bug report.
How I am supposed to interpret this adverb 'transitively'.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transitive meaning 2.
"how to interpret?" is not the same as "what does the word mean?"
Where does the knowledge about this autoremoval come from?
I assume it's https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi or an
equivalent source.
This might be the link that the tracker box needs to add then.
