Bug#976980: marked as done (apt: Possible to silently remove some depends)

To: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#976980: marked as done (apt: Possible to silently remove some depends)
From: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org>
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:03:05 +0000
Message-id: <[🔎] handler.976980.D976980.160752603123400.ackdone@bugs.debian.org>
Reply-to: 976980@bugs.debian.org
References: <20201209155708.GA529901@debian.org> <[🔎] 20201209144723.GA20082@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal>

Your message dated Wed, 9 Dec 2020 16:00:23 +0100
with message-id <20201209155708.GA529901@debian.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#976980: apt: Possible to silently remove some depends
has caused the Debian Bug report #976980,
regarding apt: Possible to silently remove some depends
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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976980: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976980
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--- Begin Message ---

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: apt: Possible to silently remove some depends
From: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 15:47:23 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 20201209144723.GA20082@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal>

Package: apt
Version: 2.1.12
Severity: important

root@samd:~# apt-cache show po4a | grep epends
Depends: gettext, libpod-parser-perl, libsgmls-perl, libyaml-tiny-perl, opensp, perl:any


root@samd:~# apt-get remove libpod-parser-perl
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig
Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
  libpod-parser-perl
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 1 zu entfernen und 2 nicht aktualisiert.
Nach dieser Operation werden 260 kB Plattenplatz freigegeben.
Möchten Sie fortfahren? [J/n]
(Lese Datenbank ... 567353 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Entfernen von libpod-parser-perl (1.63-2) ...
»Umleitung von /usr/bin/podselect zu /usr/bin/podselect.bundled durch libpod-parser-perl« wird entfernt
»Umleitung von /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.1.gz zu /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.bundled.1.gz durch libpod-parser-perl« wird entfernt
Trigger für man-db (2.9.3-2) werden verarbeitet ...
======  How can you help?  (doc: https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help ) ======

-----  Show old opportunities as well as new ones: how-can-i-help --old  -----
root@samd:~# dpkg -l po4a
Gewünscht=Unbekannt/Installieren/R=Entfernen/P=Vollständig Löschen/Halten
| Status=Nicht/Installiert/Config/U=Entpackt/halb konFiguriert/
         Halb installiert/Trigger erWartet/Trigger anhängig
|/ Fehler?=(kein)/R=Neuinstallation notwendig (Status, Fehler: GROSS=schlecht)
||/ Name           Version      Architektur  Beschreibung
+++-==============-============-============-==============================================
ii  po4a           0.61-1       all          tools to ease the translation of documentation

All the other dependecies correctly remove po4a as well …

I noticed this in #976704

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To: 976980-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#976980: apt: Possible to silently remove some depends
From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 16:00:23 +0100
Message-id: <20201209155708.GA529901@debian.org>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20201209144723.GA20082@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal>
References: <[🔎] 20201209144723.GA20082@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal>

On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 03:47:23PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 2.1.12
> Severity: important
> 
> root@samd:~# apt-cache show po4a | grep epends
> Depends: gettext, libpod-parser-perl, libsgmls-perl, libyaml-tiny-perl, opensp, perl:any
> 
> 
> root@samd:~# apt-get remove libpod-parser-perl
> Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
> Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.
> Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig
> Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
>   libpod-parser-perl
> 0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 1 zu entfernen und 2 nicht aktualisiert.
> Nach dieser Operation werden 260 kB Plattenplatz freigegeben.
> Möchten Sie fortfahren? [J/n]
> (Lese Datenbank ... 567353 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
> Entfernen von libpod-parser-perl (1.63-2) ...
> »Umleitung von /usr/bin/podselect zu /usr/bin/podselect.bundled durch libpod-parser-perl« wird entfernt
> »Umleitung von /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.1.gz zu /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.bundled.1.gz durch libpod-parser-perl« wird entfernt
> Trigger für man-db (2.9.3-2) werden verarbeitet ...
> ======  How can you help?  (doc: https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help ) ======
> 
> -----  Show old opportunities as well as new ones: how-can-i-help --old  -----
> root@samd:~# dpkg -l po4a
> Gewünscht=Unbekannt/Installieren/R=Entfernen/P=Vollständig Löschen/Halten
> | Status=Nicht/Installiert/Config/U=Entpackt/halb konFiguriert/
>          Halb installiert/Trigger erWartet/Trigger anhängig
> |/ Fehler?=(kein)/R=Neuinstallation notwendig (Status, Fehler: GROSS=schlecht)
> ||/ Name           Version      Architektur  Beschreibung
> +++-==============-============-============-==============================================
> ii  po4a           0.61-1       all          tools to ease the translation of documentation
> 
> All the other dependecies correctly remove po4a as well …


perl Provides libpod-parser-perl. Hence it's not even installed by
default if you install po4a (because perl was installed already).

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