Re: recent Trixie upgrade removed nfs client

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Gary Dale wrote:

> I'm running Trixie on an AMD64 system.
>
> Yesterday after doing my usual morning full-upgrade, I rebooted because 
> there were a lot of Plasma-related updates. When I logged in, I found I 
> wasn't connected to my file server shares. I eventually traced this down 
> to a lack of nfs software on my workstation. Reinstalling nfs-client 
> fixed this.
>
> I guess I need to pay closer attention to what autoremove tells me it's 
> going to remove, but I'm confused as to why it would remove nfs-client & 
> related packages.
>
> This follows a couple of previous full-upgrades that were having 
> problems. The first, a few days ago, was stopped by gdb not being 
> available. However, it installed fine manually (apt install gdb). I 
> don't see why apt full-upgrade didn't do this automatically as a 
> dependency for whatever package needed it.
>
> The second was blocked by the lack of a lcl-qt5 or lcl-gtk5 library. I 
> can see this as legitimate because it looks like you don't need both so 
> the package manager lets you decide which you want.
>
> Not looking for a solution. Just reporting a spate of oddities I've 
> encountered lately.

  the on-going time_t transitions may be causing some packages
to be removed for a while as dependencies get adjusted.

  i've currently not been doing full upgrades because there are
many Mate packages that would be removed.


  songbird