[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#923678: libjs-leaflet-markercluster: not a transitional package for apt

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: libjs-leaflet-markercluster
Version: 1.4.1~dfsg-5
Severity: important

When removing the libjs-leaflet-markercluster “transitional” package,
apt also clears the new one for removal:


$ sudo apt-get purge libjs-leaflet-markercluster
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libjs-leaflet.markercluster
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libjs-leaflet-markercluster*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
After this operation, 65.5 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n


This is because libjs-leaflet-markercluster is not in Section oldlibs
(used to also require Priority extra, but please recheck with apt docs).

Proper transitional packages make apt transfer the “manually installed”
bit to the depended-on packages.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers buildd-unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libjs-leaflet-markercluster depends on:
ii  libjs-leaflet.markercluster  1.4.1~dfsg-5

libjs-leaflet-markercluster recommends no packages.

libjs-leaflet-markercluster suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information