Package: libblockdev2 Version: 2.12-2 Severity: serious Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
please demote the dependencies of mdadm, gdisk etc to recommendations. mdadm, gdisk and so on can be recommended, depend on them is much to hard. apt purge gdisk Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gdisk* gvfs* gvfs-daemons* libblockdev-part-dev* libblockdev-part2* udisks2* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 3.984 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] N apt purge mdadm :( Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gvfs* gvfs-daemons* libblockdev-mdraid-dev* libblockdev-mdraid2* mdadm* udisks2* Thanks Alf -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers buildd-unstable APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-towo.1-siduction-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libblockdev2 depends on: ii libblockdev-utils2 2.12-2 ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libglib2.0-0 2.53.6-1 libblockdev2 recommends no packages. libblockdev2 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information