Bug#598452: apt-get autoremove wants to remove essential packages
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.0
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-8 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none> (no description available)
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.4 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.97.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
After upgrading the following packages:
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt apt-utils bsdutils dpkg dpkg-dev libblkid1 libdpkg-perl libedit-dev
libedit2 libuuid1 mount util-linux uuid-dev
Setting up apt (0.8.5) ...
Setting up dpkg (1.15.8.5) ...
Setting up apt-utils (0.8.5) ...
Setting up libdpkg-perl (1.15.8.5) ...
Setting up dpkg-dev (1.15.8.5) ...
etc.
the "apt-get autoremove" command now considers the running
kernel and other essential packages as removable:
apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
firmware-linux-free linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64
linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 294MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
dpkg -l | grep linux-image
ii linux-image-2. 2.6.32-9 Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
ii linux-image-2. 2.6.32-23 Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
ii linux-image-2. 2.6.32-5 Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
I doubt that this is the intended behavior.
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