Bug#925468: apt: upgrading package as dependency pulls in different packages vs. doing so explicitly
Package: apt
Version: 1.8.0
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I expect that when apt-get tries to install or upgrade a package, all else being equal (i.e., assuming there are not other packages involved which will break the obvious dependency resolution), it will pull in the same set of dependencies when that package is being installed as a dependency as it will do when that package is being explicitly specified by the user for install.
For the most part, my experience matches this expectation. However, at present, I am encountering a situation which does not.
When I attempt to upgrade openssh-client, it pulls in openssh-server and openssh-sftp-server as dependencies, and stops there. This is acceptable.
However, if I instead attempt to upgrade openssh-server, it pulls in all of libargon2-1, libcryptsetup12, libnss-systemd, libpam-systemd, libsystemd0, libsystemd0:i386, openssh-client, openssh-sftp-server, systemd, and systemd-sysv - which then results in removing consolekit, systemd-shim, and sysvinit-core.
(Worse, if I specify those three to-be-removed packages explicitly on the command line, it finds a dependency solution which does not remove any of them - so the chosen solution was unnecessarily drastic to begin with. That's a side issue, however, and is not the focus of this bug report.)
The dependency chain appears to arise from the facts that openssh-server Recommends: libpam-systemd, and Recommends are installed by default. From the fact that this chain does not arise when pulling in openssh-server as a dependency, I infer that this "install Recommends by default" policy is not applied when the package with the Recommends is being installed as a dependency.
This inconsistent dependency result is IMO undesirable. As the package being specified in the second case is one of the same packages selected as a dependency in the first case, the dependency solution chosen by the second case should be a *subset* of the packages chosen in the first case - not a superset, as is the case here. (Note that "the same set" is a valid subset.)
(I am not entirely enamored of the install-Recommends-by-default policy to begin with, but if it is going to exist, IMO it should be applied consistently; applying it to explicit installations but not to dependency installations seems almost designed to produce unexpected results.)
It would probably be at least equally appropriate to title this bug report "Recommends not installed by default for depended-on packages" or "Recommends installed by default for explicit installs, but not for dependency installs"; feel free to retitle as such if that seems preferable.
The commands I'm running, their output, and the version information for the packages involved are as follows.
aqualung:~# apt-get install openssh-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libpoclu-dev libpoclu1
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
openssh-server openssh-sftp-server
Suggested packages:
keychain libpam-ssh monkeysphere ssh-askpass molly-guard rssh ufw
Recommended packages:
default-logind | logind | libpam-systemd
The following packages will be upgraded:
openssh-client openssh-server openssh-sftp-server
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1105 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,177 kB of archives.
After this operation, 28.7 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
aqualung:~# apt-get install openssh-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
cgmanager libcgmanager0 libck-connector0 libnih-dbus1 libnih1 libpoclu-dev libpoclu1
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libargon2-1 libcryptsetup12 libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libsystemd0 libsystemd0:i386 openssh-client openssh-sftp-server systemd systemd-sysv
Suggested packages:
keychain libpam-ssh monkeysphere ssh-askpass molly-guard rssh ufw systemd-container policykit-1
The following packages will be REMOVED:
consolekit systemd-shim sysvinit-core
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libargon2-1 libcryptsetup12 libnss-systemd libpam-systemd systemd systemd-sysv
The following packages will be upgraded:
libsystemd0 libsystemd0:i386 openssh-client openssh-server openssh-sftp-server
5 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1102 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,059 kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
aqualung:~# apt-cache policy openssh-{client,server}
openssh-client:
Installed: 1:7.9p1-4
Candidate: 1:7.9p1-9
Version table:
1:7.9p1-9 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
*** 1:7.9p1-4 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:7.4p1-10+deb9u6 500
500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main amd64 Packages
1:7.4p1-10+deb9u5 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
openssh-server:
Installed: 1:7.9p1-4
Candidate: 1:7.9p1-9
Version table:
1:7.9p1-9 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
*** 1:7.9p1-4 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:7.4p1-10+deb9u6 500
500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main amd64 Packages
1:7.4p1-10+deb9u5 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
-- Package-specific info:
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#Pin-Priority: 1001
-- /etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs --
Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at 2018-12-09 09:07:16 -0500
Explanation: #901952: xdelta: expected from file (/tmp/pristine-tar.SljdkfANnj/recreatetarball) of length 7557120 bytes
Package: tar
Pin: version 1.29b-2
Pin-Priority: 30000
Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at 2019-03-23 17:15:01 -0400
Explanation: #919438: libgsm1-dev: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
Package: libgsm1-dev
Pin: version 1.0.13-4+b2
Pin-Priority: 30000
Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at 2019-03-24 12:24:48 -0400
Explanation: #922346: eog: Opened an image and my display server crashed
Package: libgl1-mesa-dri
Pin: version 18.2.6-1
Pin-Priority: 30000
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.3 _Lenny_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20090906-11:59]/ lenny main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.3 _Lenny_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20090906-11:59]/ lenny main
## oldstable, because sometimes having that available avoids problems when upgrading across distributions
#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
## temporarily enabled to get fglrx-legacy-driver without waiting for a new stable release first
#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
## temporarily enabled to check some available package versions
#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
## the original netinst-created entries
#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
#
#deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
#deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile stable/volatile main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile stable/volatile main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable-updates main contrib non-free
-- (no /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* present) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii debian-archive-keyring 2018.1
ii gpgv 2.2.12-1
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.0~alpha2
ii libc6 2.28-8
ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-2
ii libgnutls30 3.6.6-2
ii libseccomp2 2.3.3-3
ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-2
Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20170717
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
ii aptitude 0.8.11-7
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.5
ii gnupg 2.2.12-1
ii gnupg2 2.2.12-1
ii powermgmt-base 1.33
-- no debconf information
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