Hi Paul, Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> writes: > Hi, > > On 30-08-2025 07:11, Xiyue Deng wrote: >> Apparently I missed the fact that removing compat-el from testing will >> also remove all its reverse dependencies, which is already happening[1]. > > > emacs-common Provides compat-el (versioned), so I my opinion this > removal (thread?) is a bug in the autoremoval tooling. (Versioned) > Provides is relatively new in Debian, not all tools deal with it in all > corner cases. Either somebody finds a fix for the autoremoval tooling > or, if we let the removal happen, I expect all dependent packages to > migrate straight back after removal. Thanks for the insights! I hope that can work one way or another. > > Paul > -- Regards, Xiyue Deng
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