Bug#625838: cheese dependencies

[Joey Hess]

Simon Renoult wrote:
> Package: cheese
> Version: 2.30.1-2
> Severity: critical
> Tags: d-i

Please don't use the d-i tag for random bug reports that have nothing to
do with the debian installer.

> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> When I try to remove cheese (apt-get autoremove --purge cheese), it deletes
> hundreds of packages in the same time. Here are those packages :

The gnome-desktop-environment metapackage depends on cheese, so by
passing autoremote to apt, you have *told* it to remove this package
and everything that depends on it, and everything that was pulled in my
something that depends on it, ie, all of gnome.

-- 
see shy jo
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