Control: retitle -1 Should remove obsolete packages even if Priority: Required
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Control: close -1
Hi all,
2011-03-30 19:03 David Kalnischkies:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 18:22, Uwe Storbeck wrote:
On Mar 30, David Kalnischkies wrote:
As
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 18:22, Uwe Storbeck wrote:
> On Mar 30, David Kalnischkies wrote:
>
>> As far as i know its just voluntary, but after all, IANAD{D,M},
>> so take everything i say with a bit of salt.
>
> I agree with you that it's probably not the best idea to fix this
> problem by changing
On Mar 30, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> As far as i know its just voluntary, but after all, IANAD{D,M},
> so take everything i say with a bit of salt.
I agree with you that it's probably not the best idea to fix this
problem by changing the behaviour of package managers. But I also
think this bug
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 17:47, Uwe Storbeck wrote:
> On Mar 30, David Kalnischkies wrote:
>> Common pratice is it to place a package in 'oldlibs' section as it
>> will be grabbed by deborphan then. You can switch the priority, too,
>> and the description should be changed.
>
> If this will be a po
On Mar 30, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> Common pratice is it to place a package in 'oldlibs' section as it
> will be grabbed by deborphan then. You can switch the priority, too,
> and the description should be changed.
If this will be a policy obeyed by all packages the problem would
be solved. de
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 22:20, Uwe Storbeck wrote:
> On Mar 26, David Kalnischkies wrote:
>> I wouldn't consider this a bug in APT and co as its way easier to
>> break your system than it is useful in helping cleaning up…
>
> apt knows when a package is obsolete and not used anymore. So it
> could
On Mar 26, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> policy says about priority required:
> "Packages which are necessary for the proper functioning of the system
> (usually, this means that dpkg functionality depends on these packages).
We are talking about obsolete packages. These packages are not
required an
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 21:10, Uwe Storbeck wrote:
> If you don't want to remove packages with priority "required"
> directly because of stability reasons than maybe resolve the
> problem by policy:
> To remove a required package always add a transitional package
> with reduced priority so that pac
reassign 559194 aptitude,apt
thanks
Same problem occurs when you upgrade a stable system (like from
lenny to squeeze). Some packages don't get removed although they
are marked as automatically installed and no other package depends
on them. I also guess those packages don't get removed by any
pack
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