Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: de...@lists.debian.org, debian-d...@lists.debian.org
APT's installation planner does not consider dependencies of packages being scheduled for removal, so a prerm must fail equally gracefully as a postrm does in absence of its dependencies. This does break dpkg's assumptions which it happily tells you about, but this is the reality we live in. So e.g. one thing you see is that apt removes libapt-pkg6.0, then unpacks libapt-pkg6.0t64, then removes libapt-pkg6.0 reverse dependencies. Clearly APT should be considering dependencies when removing packages but even in that case, removals may sometimes need to be forced in the wrong order because any order leads to broken dependencies, so still, prerms should not rely on dependencies, but only on essential packages. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
