Re: How shall I report a bug in the .deb packaging itself?
On 21 December 2015 at 14:59, Alberto Salvia Novella
<es20490446e@gmail.com> wrote:
> Julian Andres Klode:
>>
>> autoremove will remove all packages that no other package
>> PreDepends, Depends, Recommends, or Suggests.
>
>
> Probably the problem is the latest.
>
> Since I did not install other package apart from cortina, probably what is
> holding back gdm is a package already present in the system. Hold as
> suggested.
>
> Because the default behaviour is to automatically install recommended
> packages but not suggested ones, that is what is causing the mismatch.
>
> The expected behaviour is autoremove to keep packages from the sets that
> will install automatically, and to remove the rest. So to depend on the
> system configuration.
>
No it's not. I told you what the expected behavior is and the reasons
why it is the expected behavior. You can configure that differently if
you want to.
I'll repeat this one last time for you: If A suggests B, and you
install B in some way, you may have come to rely on the fact that A is
extended by B on your system. Automatically removing B could thus
cause an unexpected loss of functionality.
This is not going to be changed, so do not waste your time and
everyone elses time.
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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