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

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Fri Dec 19 19:55:04 UTC 2014


package: upgrade-reports,gnome
severity: important
user: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
usertag: jenkins

Hi,

if you look at 
https://jenkins.debian.net/job/chroot-installation_wheezy_install_gnome_upgrade_to_jessie/512/consoleFull
you will see that something strange has started to happen:

- 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:

+ apt-get clean
+ apt-get -yf dist-upgrade
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libaudit0 libcheese-gtk21 libcheese3 libcogl-pango0 libcogl9 libebook-1.2-13
  libedata-book-1.2-13 libedataserverui-3.0-1 libexttextcat0 libgjs0b
  libgnome-desktop-3-2 libgoa-1.0-0 libgraphite2-2.0.0 libgtksourceview-3.0-0
  libmetacity-private0a libmutter0 libpackagekit-glib2-14 libperl5.14
  libreoffice-filter-binfilter libreoffice-filter-mobiledev
  nautilus-sendto-empathy obexd-client packagekit-backend-aptcc python-speechd
  python-uno xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
  xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-i128
  xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
  xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-tseng
  xserver-xorg-video-voodoo

- but there are also many packages upgraded, and one kept back, this might be ok. Maybe.
- then, "apt-get dist-upgrade" is redone, listing many many candiates for autoremoval and from the log:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libdb5.1-java
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdb5.3-java libdb5.3-java-jni
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libdb-java

which also has problems:

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..)


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...


cheers,
	Holger
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