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Bug#773550: autoremoval problem on gnome wheezy to jessie upgrades



Hi Joss,

On Samstag, 20. Dezember 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Most of these candidates look fine to me. They are packages removed from
> the dependency tree of the “gnome” metapackage in jessie, and there’s
> nothing wrong with that.
> 
> Except for libreoffice. Which brings us to the java problems, mostly
> related to LO as well.

what's your proposal for that, is there a bug about this?
 
> >   much and fails when it try to remove sudo. (This failure to remove sudo
> >   is a feature and not subject of this bug report..)
> I see.

sudo removes fine if a root password is set, this how piuparts solves this 
issue. I think it's also possible to force something else with SUDO_SOME_VAR, 
but I might be wrong...
 
> This is because nothing in GNOME depends on sudo/gksu anymore. And this
> was the way sudo was kept in the dependency tree.
> 
> Given the usefulness of this package, but its absence of relation to
> GNOME, I think a dependency on sudo should be added to task-desktop.
> 
> Would it be OK to reassign?

I'd be totally fine with that. Bugs are for everyone and can be easily cloned 
and reassigned (and closed too :)

Thanks!


cheers,
	Holger


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