On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 08:21:03PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they remove a > > package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later all > > dependencies of the meta-package are removed by accident. > > Not to rain on your parade, but those people should consider upgrading > their Debian installations as since at least apt version 1.1 shipped > before current old-old-stable (that is, they run at best Debian 8 jessie > which is covered only by Extended LTS) apt actually marks dependencies > of packages in section metapackages as manually installed if the > metapackage is removed due to the removal of one of its dependencies > – but doesn't if you decide to remove the metapackage explicitly. Then I guess there are some other reasons for this to happen not explainable by "these peoiple just run jessie". -- WBR, wRAR
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