Re: How shall I report a bug in the .deb packaging itself?
Robie Basak <robie.basak@ubuntu.com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 03:08:51PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>> 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.
> I understand your logic here. But doesn't the same logic apply to
> Depends? If B depends on A and you install B in some way, then you may
> have come to reply on the fact that A is extended by B on your system,
> etc.
> I had always assumed that this is the risk you take by using autoremove
> and thus you need to pay attention to what you autoremove, which is for
> example why unattended-upgrades is sensible by not doing it by default.
Er, autoremove certainly never removes a package another package Depends
on. Nothing will do that, without removing the depending package.
Enforcing that invariant is the whole *point* of apt.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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