Bug#1001015: marked as done ("E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system." for foreign-arch multiarch essential/protected packages)

To: Johan Laenen <johan.laenen+debianbugs@gmail.com>
Subject: Bug#1001015: marked as done ("E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system." for foreign-arch multiarch essential/protected packages)
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 18:24:05 +0000
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To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: "E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system." for foreign-arch multiarch essential/protected packages
From: Johan Laenen <johan.laenen+debianbugs@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 19:04:42 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 163846828254.1907.5152173716282447165.reportbug@msi>

Package: apt
Version: 2.3.13
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: johan.laenen+debianbugs@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

I removed steam from my system, a 64bit machine:

root@msi:/home/gargle# dpkg --print-architecture
amd64

Steam needed i386 stuff, so I added the architecture before doing apt-get
install steam. Some i386 packages were indeed installed. I purged them all but
three remain, and I cannot get rid of them:

root@msi:/home/gargle# dpkg --get-selections | grep i386 | awk '{print $1}'
gcc-11-base:i386
libc6:i386
libgcc-s1:i386

root@msi:/home/gargle# apt-get remove --purge gcc-11-base:i386 libgcc-s1:i386 libc6:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gcc-11-base:i386* libc6:i386* libgcc-s1:i386*
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
libgcc-s1:i386 gcc-11-base:i386 (due to libgcc-s1:i386) libc6:i386 (due to libgcc-s1:i386)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 156 not upgraded.
After this operation, 12.9 MB disk space will be freed.
E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.



-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

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-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/* present) --


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.6.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20160917-14:20]/ testing main contrib non-free

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.6.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20160917-14:20]/ testing main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

#deb http://security.debian.org/ testing-security main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing-security main contrib non-free

# testing-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
#deb http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main contrib non-free

-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/eid.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.118
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2021.1.1
ii  gpgv                    2.2.27-2
ii  libapt-pkg6.0           2.3.13
ii  libc6                   2.32-4
ii  libgcc-s1               11.2.0-12
ii  libgnutls30             3.7.2-2
ii  libseccomp2             2.5.3-2
ii  libstdc++6              11.2.0-12
ii  libsystemd0             249.7-1

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20211016

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc         <none>
ii  aptitude        0.8.13-3
ii  dpkg-dev        1.20.9
ii  gnupg           2.2.27-2
ii  gnupg2          2.2.27-2
pn  powermgmt-base  <none>

-- no debconf information

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To: 1001015-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: "E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system." for foreign-arch multiarch essential/protected packages

From: Johan Laenen <johan.laenen+debianbugs@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 19:20:05 +0100

Message-id: <CAA2R5K5xLw+pYq2zhcchLr2O+eWYt1N59M1iW50uHSsc1t+=vg@mail.gmail.com>

I'm feeling foolish, I forgot about the --allow-remove-essential parameter.

My excuses,

Johan

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