Bug#912860: Don't ship libgtk2-perl in Bullseye
intrigeri
intrigeri at debian.org
Tue Jul 16 23:00:57 BST 2019
olly just nicely explained me on IRC a few things about the
autoremoval machinery and how it affects removing from testing
libgtk2-perl and its reverse-dependencies:
- A set of RC buggy packages that have no reverse-deps outside of
this set, should all be autoremoved together at some point, as long
as they're not key packages, which are immune to autoremoval:
https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.yaml.cgi
- libgtk2-perl is on the list of key packages because it's installed
on many machines ("popcon"). It's the last we can remove because
all other packages that I've made RC-buggy today are
reverse-dependencies of it.
- Once everything else is gone, we'll need to ask for libgtk2-perl
to lose its "key package" status and be removed from testing.
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