[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1905775] Re: Uninstalling python3-apporrt should not uninstall xorg packages

2020-12-01 Thread flux242
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1899971 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899971 well, based on the reply from Timo Aaltonen it seems like there's canonical politics involved so, i purged python3-apport and reinstalled only 2 packages: sudo apt install xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-in

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1905775] Re: Uninstalling python3-apporrt should not uninstall xorg packages

2020-12-01 Thread Daniel van Vugt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1899971 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899971 Sounds like the same issue as bug 1899971. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1899971 Problematic dependency on python3-apport causes all Python invocations to install apport hook -- You r

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1905775] Re: Uninstalling python3-apporrt should not uninstall xorg packages

2020-12-01 Thread flux242
i've just checked debian xorg package dependencies and no it doesn't depend on that problem reporting. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1905775 Title: Uninstalling python3-apporrt

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1905775] Re: Uninstalling python3-apporrt should not uninstall xorg packages

2020-12-01 Thread flux242
no, it is an issue because packages are marked for automatic removal: x11-apps x11-session-utils xinit xinput xserver-common xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-libinput So you suggest to install all those packages extra afterwards instead of simply getting dependencies sor

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1905775] Re: Uninstalling python3-apporrt should not uninstall xorg packages

2020-12-01 Thread Sebastien Bacher
The packages getting remove don't have useful content but are just empty binaries meant to pull a complete set to the default installation, if you want to remove apport and get those removed it shouldn't be an issue ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received thi

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1905775] Re: Uninstalling python3-apporrt should not uninstall xorg packages

2020-12-01 Thread flux242
ah, it's the other way around with dependencies. So, apparently xorg should not depend on problem reporting. I think the only reason they put this dependency there is because otherwise they would have to add it to every -desktop task. And no, I want to purge all packages related to apport, not onl

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1905775] Re: Uninstalling python3-apporrt should not uninstall xorg packages

2020-12-01 Thread Brian Murray
This does not have to do with apport's dependencies, rather it is an xorg package which depends on apport and the removal of python3-apport causing the xorg package to have missing dependencies. bdmurray@clean-focal-amd64:~$ apt-cache show xserver-xorg Package: xserver-xorg Architecture: amd64 Ver