Bug#934646: git-all: Installing git-all on Debian XFCE base install removes core system packages
On 2019-08-12 16:10 -0600, Robert Petry wrote: > Package: git-all > Version: 1:2.20.1-2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I did a fresh install of Debian Stable using the > firmware-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso image and installed the following > tasks: Debian desktop environment, XFCE, print server and standard > system utilities. After this I ran a script which installed my usual > packages. For reference these were: > - > PACKAGELIST="emacs texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-extra > texlive-science texlive-games perl-tk latexmk auto-multiple-choice > auto-multiple-choice-doc auctex psutils pstoedit pdftk pdfchain > asymptote mkdocs mkdocs-doc elpa-markdown-mode xfig xfig-doc > gsfonts-x11 fig2ps imagemagick inkscape krita blender build-essential > glibc-doc git-all jupyter-core jupyter-notebook > python3-widgetsnbextension jupyter-nbconvert python-notebook-doc > python3-seaborn texlive-xetex python3-plotly python3-numpy > python-numpy-doc python3-scipy python-scipy-doc idle3 > python3-matplotlib python3-matplotlib-venn python-matplotlib-doc > python3-mpmath python-mpmath-doc python3-gmpy2 python3-sympy > python3-sympy-doc ipython3 python-ipython-doc wxmaxima evince sshfs > sudo audacious gnome-sound-recorder simple-scan youtube-dl > gnome-system-tools unattended-upgrades xournal deja-dup thunderbird > locate xinput galculator obs-studio gigolo" > > After this was complete my networking and the lightdm window manager > were no longer present. Looking at the apt log showed that my apt -y > autoinstall of git-all had caused the removal of the task-xfce-desktop > package, the network-manager the lightdm display manager as well as > other core packages. This was obviously unexpected. > > Next I reinstalled Debian as above without the git-all package and > tried to install the various dependencies of git-all to see what was > going on. Looking at the dependencies of git-all shows that it > recommends git-daemon-run or git-daemon-sysvinit. It turns out that > the git-daemon-run package is the one which appears to require the > removal of the core packages above if you try to install it after a > fresh install. It does not strictly _require_ that, but on my system apt would remove dbus-user-session and quite a few of its reverse dependencies, which is bad. With aptitude the results are better, as it installs runit-systemd by default and would not remove any packages. > The upshot is that because the default Debian install method is to > install recommends and because git-all recommends git-daemon-run which > in turn does not play nicely with the basic XFCE installation > described above the system becomes broken. My suggestion would be to > do one of the following: > > 1) Fix the git-daemon-run package or its dependency which is causing > this. This appears to be new behaviour in Debian 10 as it worked > before in 9. > 2) Make the default recommend git-daemon-sysvinit which at least does not > cause this problem. > 3) Make these recommended packages suggested only. I think 2) would make most sense, but either of these options looks preferable to the status quo. Cheers, Sven
Bug#934646: git-all: Installing git-all on Debian XFCE base install removes core system packages
Package: git-all Version: 1:2.20.1-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I did a fresh install of Debian Stable using the firmware-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso image and installed the following tasks: Debian desktop environment, XFCE, print server and standard system utilities. After this I ran a script which installed my usual packages. For reference these were: - PACKAGELIST="emacs texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-extra texlive-science texlive-games perl-tk latexmk auto-multiple-choice auto-multiple-choice-doc auctex psutils pstoedit pdftk pdfchain asymptote mkdocs mkdocs-doc elpa-markdown-mode xfig xfig-doc gsfonts-x11 fig2ps imagemagick inkscape krita blender build-essential glibc-doc git-all jupyter-core jupyter-notebook python3-widgetsnbextension jupyter-nbconvert python-notebook-doc python3-seaborn texlive-xetex python3-plotly python3-numpy python-numpy-doc python3-scipy python-scipy-doc idle3 python3-matplotlib python3-matplotlib-venn python-matplotlib-doc python3-mpmath python-mpmath-doc python3-gmpy2 python3-sympy python3-sympy-doc ipython3 python-ipython-doc wxmaxima evince sshfs sudo audacious gnome-sound-recorder simple-scan youtube-dl gnome-system-tools unattended-upgrades xournal deja-dup thunderbird locate xinput galculator obs-studio gigolo" After this was complete my networking and the lightdm window manager were no longer present. Looking at the apt log showed that my apt -y autoinstall of git-all had caused the removal of the task-xfce-desktop package, the network-manager the lightdm display manager as well as other core packages. This was obviously unexpected. Next I reinstalled Debian as above without the git-all package and tried to install the various dependencies of git-all to see what was going on. Looking at the dependencies of git-all shows that it recommends git-daemon-run or git-daemon-sysvinit. It turns out that the git-daemon-run package is the one which appears to require the removal of the core packages above if you try to install it after a fresh install. The upshot is that because the default Debian install method is to install recommends and because git-all recommends git-daemon-run which in turn does not play nicely with the basic XFCE installation described above the system becomes broken. My suggestion would be to do one of the following: 1) Fix the git-daemon-run package or its dependency which is causing this. This appears to be new behaviour in Debian 10 as it worked before in 9. 2) Make the default recommend git-daemon-sysvinit which at least does not cause this problem. 3) Make these recommended packages suggested only. Thanks for your attention to this. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages git-all depends on: ii git1:2.20.1-2 pn git-cvs ii git-doc1:2.20.1-2 pn git-el pn git-email ii git-gui1:2.20.1-2 pn git-mediawiki pn git-svn ii gitk 1:2.20.1-2 pn gitweb Versions of packages git-all recommends: pn git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit git-all suggests no packages.
