Bug#992317: installation-reports: Unnecessary 'You are about to do something potentially harmful.'
Hi Peter!
I'm guessing - were you using the "crossgrader" package here?
If so, I'll reassing the bug over there...
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 02:38:05PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>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/>
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