Bug#865274: apt: can't remove firefox-esr without installing firefox

[Peter Zhang]

Ok, thanks. I didn't catch your meaning to remove in same command. Ignore
it, I used chromium in testing suit before. I'll leave Firefox-esr there.

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017, 5:31 PM Julian Andres Klode <jak at debian.org> wrote:

> Control: reassign -1 gnome-core
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 08:58:54AM +0000, Peter Zhang wrote:
> > I have gnome and Chrome installed, chromium had been removed.
>
> gnome-core depends on
>
>   firefox-esr (>= 30) | firefox (>= 30) | chromium
>
> So you'll need one of the three installed, or create a fake
> package providing one of them (with equivs, for example).
>
> I'll reassign this to gnome-core then, but I don't really
> expect that to be solved.
>
> >
> > When I remove firefox-esr, it prompts Firefox will be installed,
> converse,
> > it asked me to install Firefox. I can't remove both of them. When I was
> in
> > testing suite with Gnome as desktop, I can remove both of them.
>
> What I wrote before is that you should test removing both (the installed
> and the non-installed one, in the same command) - that tells you
> what the issue is, because removing a non-installed package means
> "do not install this package".
>
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