Bug#472551: gnome-applets-data *requires* mktemp for postinst

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 472551 aptitude
severity 472551 serious # policy 5.6.9
retitle 472551 aptitude accepts to remove essential packages
thanks

Le jeudi 24 avril 2008 à 00:48 +0100, Tom Parker a écrit :
> Installed from Etch 4.0r2 DVDs a little while back. Using a mix of
> stable,testing,unstable and experimental packages. Been upgrading with
> aptitude mostly, and as I've just noticed (using aptitude 0.4.11.1-1
> to uninstall mktemp) it will let you quite happily uninstall Essential
> packages without so much as a "are you really sure you want to do
> this?". The console output says:
> 
> dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
>  This is an essential package - it should not be removed.
> (Reading database ... 115481 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing mktemp ...

Indeed, this is reproducible; aptitude will ask to type "do as I say" if
the only operation requested is an essential package's removal, but it
will happily remove an essential package if there are some packages to
autoremove in the database.

(Ah, I wish the recommended tool for upgrades were not one that
diverges from APT's upgrading algorithms in so ugly ways.)

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