On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:34:23 +0100 Roger Lynn <ro...@rilynn.me.uk> wrote:
> On 20/10/17 05:00, Celejar wrote: > > The description of the imagemagick package (8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1) > > on my Stable system includes the statements: > > > > "This is a dummy package. You can safely purge or remove it." > > > > But trying to remove it rips out cups, because: > > > > ~$ aptitude why imagemagick > > i cups Depends cups-filters (>= 1.0.24-3~) > > i A cups-filters Depends imagemagick (>= 6.4~) > > > > What gives? > > imagemagick can only be removed when nothing depends on it. > imagemagick-6.q16 has been marked as replacing imagemagick, so most packages > which depend on imagemagick will automatically use imagemagick-6.q16. > However some packages, including cups-filters, depend on particular versions > of imagemagick and the automatic replacement doesn't appear to work in this > case. > > You will only be able to remove imagemagick when cups-filters' dependencies > are updated or imagemagick-6.q16 finds a better way of declaring that it > provides imagemagick. > > The :386 packages are irrelevant and only need installing in very specific > circumstances. Thanks for the explanation. So this is basically a bug in cups-filter, which is insisting that it depends on a dummy package when it really doesn't? Celejar
