Hi Peter, Thanks for your report. (Admittedly, that's really upgrade-reports material; installation-reports are about newly-installed systems.) Peter B <havihog817@5ubo.com> (2021-08-17): > Doing a 32 to 64 bit cross grade on a bullseye server. > # apt-get remove gcc-10-base:i386 libc6:i386 libcrypt1:i386 libgcc-s1:i386 > The following packages will be REMOVED: > gcc-10-base:i386 libc6:i386 libcrypt1:i386 libgcc-s1:i386 > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > libcrypt1:i386 libc6:i386 (due to libcrypt1:i386) libgcc-s1:i386 gcc-10-base:i386 (due to libgcc-s1:i386) > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 8 not upgraded. > After this operation, 13.2 MB disk space will be freed. > You are about to do something potentially harmful. > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' > ?] ^C It looks like a textbook example of a situation where you're absolutely not doing something standard (cross-grades aren't something we support officially as far as I know, even if people-who-know manage to make them work or recover when things go sideways), and where the warning+prompt do prevent less tech-savvy users from shooting themselves in the foot. I'm not sure there's anything to fix here. I'll leave this bug report open for a while, so that others can comment as well. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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