Bug#1110938: upgrade-reports: apt wants to (correctly?) autoremove network-manager-gnome after successful XFCE Bookworm to Trixie upgrade
Package: upgrade-reports
Followup-For: Bug #1110938
As per subject, after a successful XFCE Bookworm to Trixie upgrade
apt suggests to autoremove network-manager-gnome among others:
root@debian4:~# apt upgrade
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
libaio1 libexecs0 libfuse3-3 libunistring2
python3-pyatspi python3-pysimplesoap python3.11-minimal
libcapstone4 libfmt9 libnfs13 network-manager-gnome
python3-pycurl python3.11
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
root@debian4:~#
I believe that this is happening because network-manager-gnome is a
transitional package in Trixie and was not manually installed:
magnus@debian4:~$ apt show network-manager-gnome
Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 1.36.0-3+b1
Priority: optional
Section: oldlibs
Source: network-manager-applet (1.36.0-3)
Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team
<pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 19.5 kB
Depends: network-manager-applet (= 1.36.0-3+b1), nm-connection-editor
(= 1.36.0-3+b1)
Homepage: https://networkmanager.dev
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::daemon, interface::graphical,
interface::x11, network::configuration, protocol::dhcp,
protocol::ip,
role::program, suite::gnome, uitoolkit::gtk, use::configuring,
x11::application
Download-Size: 10.8 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 Packages
Description: transitional package for network-manager-applet and
nm-connection-editor
NetworkManager is a system network service that manages your network
devices
and connections, attempting to keep active network connectivity when
available. It manages ethernet, Wi-Fi, mobile broadband (WWAN), and
PPPoE
devices, and provides VPN integration with a variety of different
VPN
services.
.
This transitional package depends on network-manager-applet
(shipping
nm-applet which provides a notification area applet for controlling
NetworkManager) and nm-connection-editor (a network connection
configuration
editor for NetworkManager).
.
It can be removed safely once no other package depends on it.
magnus@debian4:~$
In fact task-xfce-desktop now depends on network-manager-applet and
nm-connection-editor and not anymore on network-manager-gnome:
task-xfce-desktop: recommends transitional network-manager-gnome
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086831
HTH, Magnus
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