Bug#773550: autoremoval problem on gnome wheezy to jessie upgrades

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 19 décembre 2014 à 20:55 +0100, Holger Levsen a écrit :
> - the "apt-get upgrade" step from wheezy to jessie is fine (lots of packages kept back, lots upgraded)
> - the "apt-get dist-upgrade" step then removes many packages, from the log:

This one looks fine.

> - then, "apt-get dist-upgrade" is redone, listing many many candiates for autoremoval and from the log:

Most of these candidates look fine to me. They are packages removed from
the dependency tree of the “gnome” metapackage in jessie, and there’s
nothing wrong with that.

Except for libreoffice. Which brings us to the java problems, mostly
related to LO as well.

> dpkg: libdb5.1-java: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
>  libdb-java depends on libdb5.1-java (>= 5.1.25-7~).
> 
> - and then finally, "apt-get autoremove" is done, which now removes way too
>   much and fails when it try to remove sudo. (This failure to remove sudo is
>   a feature and not subject of this bug report..)

I see.

> This didnt happen 2 weeks ago, and IMO also shouldn't^must not happen.
> I've just not really an idea where the bug comes from...

This is because nothing in GNOME depends on sudo/gksu anymore. And this
was the way sudo was kept in the dependency tree.

Given the usefulness of this package, but its absence of relation to
GNOME, I think a dependency on sudo should be added to task-desktop.

Would it be OK to reassign?

Cheers,
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