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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.6.14
Severity: normal
A few days ago I did my usual dist-upgrade with deselect (apt-method).
When I left the Select-Screen, dselect made the suggestion to remove all
packages, but to leave locale-zh installed.
I noticed, that the dependencies of locale-zh say: conflicts libc6 >= 2.1.94-1,
but my hole system depends of this lib (of course).
I don't have a clue, why dselect just didn't remove locale-zh !!
Maybe I have send this report as wishlist, but a bit more intelligence is
needed in the suggestion-system. For example, if possible, it should never be
possible to remove required packages, if theres another solution.
Daniel Migowski
-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux aurelion 2.4.0-test6 #15 Sun Oct 15 16:34:04 CEST 2000
i686 unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.95-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libncurses5 5.0-7 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library
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Hi,
motivation for the report:
"...it should never be possible to remove required packages, if theres
another solution."
Hmmm, it should always be possible to remove required packages because
dselect may not know of all the other solutions... it is up to the
admins to accept dselect's recommendations, modify them, or even force
a "broken" solution on the system if that's what they want.
It looks like dselect did what is was supposed to, and it would have
been an important bug if dselect had just removed locale-zh without
running it past the admin via the Conflict Resolution Screen.
I don't think this even qualifies as a useful wishlist item because, "a
bit more intelligence is needed", can be said of any system.
Since the specific behaviour mentioned is not buggy, the trigger is
either transitory or a packaging error, and the corresponding wishlist
item is too vague to be useful, I am closing this report.
- Bruce
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