Bug#1052133: apt: E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.
Package: apt
Version: 2.7.3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: tg@mirbsd.de
E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.
Used to be that it asks for “Yes, do as I say!”, and this is missing
in sid now‽ I kinda need that…
-- Package-specific info:
-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/dash-mksh.pref present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/ncurses-term-considered-harmful present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-apparmor present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-aptitude present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-drexim present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-networkmanager present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-packagekit present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-puppet present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-ruby present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-systemd-completely present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/prevent-unattended-upgrades present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/usrmove-done-considered-harmful present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/local.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/tarent-sid.sources present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/wtf-sid.sources present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, x32
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-25-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.137
ii base-passwd 3.6.1
ii debian-archive-keyring 2023.4
ii gpgv 2.2.40-1.1
ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.7.3
ii libc6 2.37-7
ii libelogind0 [libsystemd0] 246.10-1debian1
ii libgcc-s1 13.2.0-2
ii libgnutls30 3.8.1-4
ii libseccomp2 2.5.4-1+b3
ii libstdc++6 13.2.0-2
Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii ca-bundle [ca-certificates] 20190604tarent1
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.22.0
ii gnupg 2.2.40-1.1
ii gnupg1 1.4.23-1.1+b1
pn powermgmt-base <none>
-- no debconf information
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