Bug#1041553: gnome-software: GNOME Software fails to remove packages to satisfy dependencies

[sidt]

Package: gnome-software
Version: 43.5-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: sidtosh4 at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

GNOME Software fails to update system, if the update involves removal of any
package.

Please refer https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2232

This issue affects "apt" based package backends, though it's not clear why
"dnf" based package backends are not affected. This issue is fixed in gnome-44
and main (gnome-45) branches. This fix is not available in gnome-43 branch (
and upstream will not be back-porting the fix to gnome-43 branch ).

Since this greatly affects the usability of GNOME Software, it would make sense
to port the patch to gnome-43 branch ( and any relevant branches ) downstream
in Debian & Ubuntu.

Thanks!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-software depends on:
ii  appstream                                    0.16.2-1
ii  apt-config-icons                             0.16.2-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-4
ii  gnome-software-common                        43.5-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    44.0-2
ii  libadwaita-1-0                               1.3.3-2
ii  libappstream4                                0.16.2-1
ii  libc6                                        2.37-6
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-7
ii  libfwupd2                                    1.9.3-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.76.4-2
ii  libgtk-4-1                                   4.10.4+ds-2
ii  libgtk3-perl                                 0.038-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               237-2
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           1.6.6-1
ii  libmalcontent-0-0                            0.11.0-4
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-18                       1.2.6-5
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.50.14+ds-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        122-4
ii  libsoup-3.0-0                                3.2.2-2
ii  libxmlb2                                     0.3.10-2
ii  packagekit                                   1.2.6-5
ii  software-properties-gtk                      0.99.30-4

Versions of packages gnome-software recommends:
ii  fwupd  1.9.3-1

Versions of packages gnome-software suggests:
pn  apt-config-icons-hidpi         <none>
pn  gnome-software-plugin-flatpak  <none>
pn  gnome-software-plugin-snap     <none>

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