Bug#559194: Unused automatically installed packages don't get removed on upgrade
On Mar 30, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> As far as i know its just voluntary, but after all, IANAD{D,M},
> so take everything i say with a bit of salt.
I agree with you that it's probably not the best idea to fix this
problem by changing the behaviour of package managers. But I also
think this bug can not be solved by a voluntary common practice
which may be not so common. ;)
As far as I understand it the support for "disappearing packages"
does not make transitional packages completely obsolete.
So is there any pseudo-package to reassign this bug to to help
establishing such a policy for transitional packages?
Maybe someone who's more familiar with debian internals or bts
can help?
Regards
Uwe
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