Bug#992317: installation-reports: Unnecessary 'You are about to do something potentially harmful.'
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
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Boot method: network
Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best>
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Machine: VM
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [ ]
Detect network card: [ ]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect media: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
Doing a 32 to 64 bit cross grade on a bullseye server. Hitting a
warning when removing the last 4 i386 packages.
It would seem like they are not necessary (only i386 packages installed,
amd64 versions are already installed)
# dpkg -l | egrep 'gcc-10-base|libc6|libcrypt1|libgcc-s1'
ii gcc-10-base:amd64 10.2.1-6 amd64 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
ii gcc-10-base:i386 10.2.1-6 i386 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
ii libc6:amd64 2.31-13 amd64 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libc6:i386 2.31-13 i386 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libc6-dev:amd64 2.31-13 amd64 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files
ii libcrypt1:amd64 1:4.4.18-4 amd64 libcrypt shared library
ii libcrypt1:i386 1:4.4.18-4 i386 libcrypt shared library
ii libgcc-s1:amd64 10.2.1-6 amd64 GCC support library
ii libgcc-s1:i386 10.2.1-6 i386 GCC support library
# 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
:~# dpkg -l | grep '^i' | grep i386 | wc -l
4
:~# dpkg -l | grep '^i' | grep amd64 | wc -l
360
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