Bug#490169: apt: undesired autoremove behavior
Control: tag -1 pending
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 05:34:30AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.14+b1
>
> I recently installed the latest msttcorefonts, which is now a dummy
> package for the new name ttf-msttcorefonts-installer. I had previously
> installed msttcorefonts manually.
>
> Since msttcorefonts is now a dummy package, I removed it from my system.
> But because ttf-msttcorefonts-installer was installed as a dependency of
> msttcorefonts, apt now suggests it for autoremoval. I think this
> behavior is highly misleading.
>
> A potential solution would involve a package control field indicating
> the status of msttcorefonts as a dummy package for
> ttf-msttcorefonts-installer. That way, the "manually installed" state,
> true or false, could propagate to the new package.
>
> Obviously, this will happen consistently in the very common case of
> all dummy packages being used in Debian.
APT in git will now migrate the auto-installed state from oldlibs
packages to dependencies on removal.
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