Bug#877474: apt: considers fdisk-dbgsym, mount-dbgsym as essential

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 1.5
Severity: important
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Control: affects -1 + fdisk-dbgsym mount-dbgsym

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed that apt refuses to remove the
"essential" fdisk-dbgsym and mount-dbgsym packages. I have no idea where
apt gets the idea that these are essential.

This happens in sid and buster chroots.

0m22.3s DEBUG: Starting command: ['chroot', '/srv/piuparts/tmp/tmptrow8E', 'apt-get', 'remove', 'mount-dbgsym']
0m22.8s DUMP: 
  Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    mount-dbgsym
  WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
  This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
    mount-dbgsym
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  E: Essential packages were removed and -y was used without --allow-remove-essential.
0m22.8s ERROR: Command failed (status=100): ['chroot', '/srv/piuparts/tmp/tmptrow8E', 'apt-get', 'remove', 'mount-dbgsym']


Andreas