On 2023-05-07 20:30:03 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 08:16:14PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > I don't have a problem pushing a 2.6.1 out with this in the coming days. Is > > this the best solution though - maybe setting Essential on adduser might be > > easier and formally fix the issue for now. > > I was also thinking that maybe it really should be essential for now. > > > We generally do not expect stuff to depend on apt. This seems to be a gap > > in piuparts, that it has apt installed while testing packages. > > Even if we made apt depend on adduser again, packages would still fail > purging if you removed apt and adduser beforehand. Julian also pointed > out another advantage on IRC: By using the Essential flag, we can > forcefully remove adduser while keeping apt. This option is unavailable > given a dependency.
If you agree that making it Essential: yes or Protected: yes, then please go ahead with implementing this change. The window to fix this is closing quickly. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
