On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 06:47:19PM +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". > > OK, this was really easy. > […] > > # apt update && apt install task-kde-desktop && apt remove konqueror > > task-kde-desktop has Section: tasks (as does all the other task- packages > as they are built from the same source package). Sure, it just means upgrading from jessie won't help actual users. -- WBR, wRAR
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