Control: retitle -1 reverse dependencies can get autoremoved too early Control: tags -1 wontfix
Hi, On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:24:30 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@debian.org> wrote:
snapper has an RC bug and hence it's listed for autoremoval. All reverse dependencies of packages listed for autoremoval get also listed for autoremoval. Packages listed for autoremoval get early warnings, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that your package is removed. There's no mechanism in place to guarantee this will be done in lockstep.Yesterday, I got a report that snapper-gui is removed from Debian testing. The reason for removal is Debiang bug: 1073699, which is for the snapper package. snapper is still in the archive while snapper-gui has been removed.
While it seems unfair that snapper isn't removed at the same time as snapper-gui, that's a hard to solve problem because we're using our migration software to do the autoremoval via removal hints and that process isn't designed to handle removal hints in a block. So while it's technically possible to fix this issue, I don't think anybody will spend their time on this problem any time soon.
Paul
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