[Piuparts-devel] Bug#1010967: piuparts - fails to uninstall package with Important marker

[James Valleroy]

On Sat, 14 May 2022 12:22:43 +0200 Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org> wrote:
> piuparts tries to uninstall packages in the end.  It also tries to
> deinstall packages with the "Important: yes" marker.  This is handled
> like essential by apt if the package is already installed.
This is now causing a piuparts failure when testing freedombox package:
https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/fail/freedombox_25.4.log

It is caused by e2fsprogs, which recently decreased its priority from required to important.

What can we do about this, is there any workaround?