02.11.2014 13:32, Daniel Lindgren wrote: [] > If you rely on some system utility in your networking configuration, > please > tell so to the package manager, by marking it as manually installed. It > is > not in any way a bug in qemu, it is a clear and obvious operator error. > > > Obviuously not an operator error. There has been a dependency for > bridge-utils in the past, that depency has now been removed which causes apt > to mark bridge-utils as not needed when it clearly still is in use, as it was > on my installation.
So what do you suggest? To keep old and long obsolete dependencies as dependencies forever? Exactly the same will happen when you remove any other package which was installed automatically but is not in use anymore by any other package on the system, in case you actually used it. The "clearly still in use" is clear for you, but not for qemu-kvm (where it is clearly not in use anymore). A rule of thumb is to see which packages are being removed by autoremove, and verify if you still use any of them. Or just don't use autoremove (it is not enabled by default). If you still disagree, please start discussion on debian-users or open a bug against linux-general package. Because this is how debian packaging system has always worked and - hopefully - will continue working. It is not in any way a bug in qemu, quite the contrary - it'd be a bug in qemu if it still listed bridge-utils in dependencies while this package is actually not used by it anymore. Thanks, /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
