Re: Bug#798731: dpkg: broken dependency calculation when removing packages
Control: reassign -1 apt
Hi!
On Sat, 2015-09-12 at 21:04:05 +0200, Branislav Zahradník wrote:
> honestly, I have no idea where this bug exactly came from, but from behavior
> it is issue in dependency resolution, which I guess is part of dpkg.
This is done by the frontend, in this case apt. If there is a bug at
all here, then it might be there. But I'll leave the apt maintainers
to decide. Leaving some context for their benefit.
> What I observed here is following scenario:
>
> I had packages A (depends on B) and B installed.
> removing B (probably via dependencies) results to: remove A B C (unwanted C)
> removing A first, than B (two commands) -> C was not affected.
> On 09/12/2015 07:17 PM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> >On Sat, 2015-09-12 at 04:19:30 +0200, Branislav Zahradnik wrote:
> >>Package: dpkg
> >>Version: 1.18.2
> >>Severity: normal
> >
> >>I had a problem with removing some KDE packages, leading to remove gnome.
> >>After rejecting this bug from gnome package maintainer I tried to find more
> >>(ie, remove packages one by one)
> >
> >>I had following issue (with apt-get output):
> >>
> >>apt-get remove libkdeui5
> >>The following extra packages will be installed:
> >> libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkntlm4 libkpty4
> >>The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >> libkdeui5 libkwineffects1abi5 libnepomuk4 libnepomukcore4 libnepomukquery4a
> >>libnepomukutils4 liboktetagui4 libsendlater4
> >>The following packages will be upgraded:
> >> libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkntlm4 libkpty4
> >>
> >>then I removed "be REMOVED" packages in reversed order manually without getting
> >>extra packages installed or upgraded.
> >>
> >>similar happen with:
> >>apt-get remove libgpgme++2
> >>The following extra packages will be installed:
> >> libreoffice-base-drivers
> >>Suggested packages:
> >> libjtds-java libreoffice-mysql-connector libmyodbc libmysql-java
> >>libsqliteodbc tdsodbc mdbtools
> >>The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >> gnome libgpgme++2 libqgpgme1 libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-
> >>emailmerge libreoffice-evolution libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-java-common
> >>libreoffice-officebean libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb
> >>openoffice.org openoffice.org-evolution
> >> openoffice.org-help-en-us
> >>The following packages will be upgraded:
> >> libreoffice-base-drivers
> >>
> >>removing libqgpgme1 before solved problem again.
> >
> >Sorry, but I don't think I understand what's the problem being
> >reported here. Also I don't quite see why this would be a problem in
> >dpkg (instead of say the package metadata, an ongoing transition or
> >apt) if there's one at all?
Thanks,
Guillem
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