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

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Julien,

On Montag, 15. November 2010, Julien Valroff wrote:
> This is not valid as dspam-webfrontend does depend on (lib)dspam (>=
> ${source:Version}) which is not in the archive, hence the error is caused
> by these missing dependencies. It seems however apt-get should fail more
> gracefully, but this is out of topic here.

so, automatically rescheduling packages which have "E: Packages need to be 
removed but remove is disabled." in their failed logs could help (in some 
cases) here, right?

(There are only 9 such failures in sid and 6 in squeeze atm.)


cheers,
	Holger

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