Bug#107322: marked as done (apt: tries to remove packages unnecessarily)
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Subject: apt: tries to remove packages unnecessarily
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:24:21 -0700
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: normal
this may very well be a wishlist bug, but...
i have a woody system with apache & php4 installed. when i try to install
phpgroupware, apt wants to remove php4 and install php3:
-- snip --
ieure!electron:~$ sudo apt-get install phpgroupware
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc-client-ssl2000 libpgsql2.1 mlock php3-cgi php3-cgi-imap php3-cgi-pgsql phpgroupware-api wwwconfig-common
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libpgsql2 php4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libc-client-ssl2000 libpgsql2.1 mlock php3-cgi php3-cgi-imap php3-cgi-pgsql phpgroupware phpgroupware-api wwwconfig-common
0 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 2 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
Need to get 65.5kB/3470kB of archives. After unpacking 20.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
-- snip --
phpgroupware Depends: on php3-imap | php3-cgi-imap | php4-imap
it seems like this dependency could be solved better by installing php4-imap
instead of removing all my php4 stuff and installing php3 instead.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux electron 2.2.19 #1 Sun Apr 29 18:43:18 PDT 2001 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.3-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-0.01042 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 22:28:59 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#107322: apt: tries to remove packages unnecessarily
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 ieure@sickfuck.org wrote:
> i have a woody system with apache & php4 installed. when i try to install
> phpgroupware, apt wants to remove php4 and install php3:
This is the expected thing, you could argue any selection from a list of
choices is correct, depending on the situation. Policy (used?) to suggest
that the first should be picked. APT selects the one of highest priority.
Jason
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