[Piuparts-devel] Bug#603453: Thoughts on the "E: Packages need to be removed but remove is disabled." issue

[Julien Valroff]

Package: piuparts
Version: 0.39~0
Severity: normal

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Hi,

I have quickly tested using --apt option with the same sets of packages, and
the results are different.

However, these tests seem to confirm that the --warn-on-others has some
side effects on how the dependencies are handled.

Testing both dspam and libdspam7-drv-mysql give the following results:

  * sudo piuparts --mirror http://packages.kirya.net/piuparts/ --mirror \
    http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ -ad sid -p --do-not-verify-signatures \
	--warn-symlinks dspam libdspam7-drv-mysql

    In that case, the dependencies are correctly resolved and the tests are
	made.
  
  * sudo piuparts --mirror http://packages.kirya.net/piuparts/ --mirror \
    http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ -ad sid -p --do-not-verify-signatures \
	--warn-symlinks --warn-on-others dspam libdspam7-drv-mysql

	In that case, I get the "E: Packages need to be removed but remove is
	disabled." error.

What is strange is that I get different behaviours depending on what is
passed to piuparts: with dspam-webfrontend .deb, I get the error, while I do
not have it when passing the package name (same options, except those linked
to --apt of course).

I'll check if I can find something in the sources, without any guarantee as
I do not know much in python…

Cheers,
Julien

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