Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable
If you need sudo, why not just apt-mark manual it?
William David Edwards
> Op 30 jul 2025 om 19:30 heeft José Esteban <chafar@chafar.net> het volgende geschreven:
>
> I'I've written to sudo package maintainer, but he suggests me to
> report that here and so I do. This is in my /var/log/apt/history.log:
>
> Start-Date: 2025-07-30 08:29:54
> Commandline: apt-get purge cloud-guest-utils
> Requested-By: chafar (1000)
> Purge: cloud-guest-utils:amd64 (0.33-1)
> End-Date: 2025-07-30 08:29:54
>
> Start-Date: 2025-07-30 08:30:13
> Commandline: apt-get purge cloud-init
> Requested-By: chafar (1000)
> Purge: cloud-init:amd64 (22.4.2-1+deb12u2)
> End-Date: 2025-07-30 08:30:14
>
> Start-Date: 2025-07-30 08:30:22
> Commandline: apt-get autoremove
> Requested-By: chafar (1000)
> Remove: python3-blinker:amd64 (1.5-1), python-babel-localedata:amd64 (2.10.3-1), python3-webcolors:amd64 (1.11.1-1), libxaw7:amd64 (2:1.0.14-1), python3-importlib-metadata:amd64 (4.12.0-1), libeatmydata1:amd64 (130-2+b1), python3-jsonpatch:amd64 (1.32-2), python3-more-itertools:amd64 (8.10.0-2), python3-attr:amd64 (22.2.0-1), gdisk:amd64 (1.0.9-2.1), python3-babel:amd64 (2.10.3-1), python3-jsonschema:amd64 (4.10.3-1), python3-oauthlib:amd64 (3.2.2-1), python3-json-pointer:amd64 (2.3-2), python3-jinja2:amd64 (3.1.2-1+deb12u2), python3-serial:amd64 (3.5-1.1), python3-netifaces:amd64 (0.11.0-2+b1), python3-uritemplate:amd64 (4.1.1-2), python3-markupsafe:amd64 (2.1.2-1+b1), python3-jwt:amd64 (2.6.0-1), eatmydata:amd64 (130-2), python3-yaml:amd64 (6.0-3+b2), sudo:amd64 (1.9.13p3-1+deb12u1), python3-rfc3987:amd64 (1.3.8-2), python3-pyrsistent:amd64 (0.18.1-1+b3), python3-zipp:amd64 (1.0.0-6)
> End-Date: 2025-07-30 08:30:24
>
> ... sudo gets inadvertently removed within a lot of python3 packages !!!
>
> who remembers the root password ?
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> José Esteban
> 034 - 607507781
>
>
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