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

[Niels Thykier]

Hi Joss,

I suspect we waiting for more information from you on this bug (last
message quoted in full for your convenience below).

~Niels

On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:24:03 +0100 Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
wrote:
> Hi Joss,
> 
> On Samstag, 20. Dezember 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> what's your proposal for that, is there a bug about this?
>  
> > >   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.
> 
> sudo removes fine if a root password is set, this how piuparts solves this 
> issue. I think it's also possible to force something else with SUDO_SOME_VAR, 
> but I might be wrong...
>  
> > 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?
> 
> I'd be totally fine with that. Bugs are for everyone and can be easily cloned 
> and reassigned (and closed too :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 	Holger
> 
>