Hi Tony,
Am Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 01:18:40PM +0000 schrieb Tony Travis:
>
> The Debian/Ubuntu "upgrade-system" package automates updating the APT
> package list, installing updated packages and removing 'orphaned' packages.
> It is very convenient for unattended upgrades of multiple computers because
> it can either be run interactively, or without a controlling terminal.
Ahhh, I was not aware of this package. ;-)
> It appears that a recent upgrade unconditionally overwrote my edited
> "upgrade-system.conf",
Hmmm, that should not happen by definition of "config file" since these
should not be overridden,
> which resulted in most of the packages installed by
> "med-bio-dev" being removed from five of my bioinformatics servers.
That should also not happen even if you do not configure anything. As
far as I understood `deborphan` it reports only those packages that are
installed via dependencies while the package that needed those
dependencies was removed. So if your system is featuring med-bio-dev
none of its dependencies should be reported by deborphan.
To track down the issue you should probably report
apt policy med-bio-dev
and also report what packages were reported by deborphan.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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