[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#816210: libldb1: Upgrade removes xine-ui, kde-runtime + 8 more (Sid Unstable)

[Cindy Sue Causey]

Package: libldb1
Version: 2:1.1.24-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Dear Maintainer,

First and as always, thank you to EVERYONE for your time and dedication that makes Debian possible!

The bug I've encountered today involves the latest upgrading of package libldb1 via apt-get on Sid Unstable. This is the advisement received when attempting that upgrade:

+++ BEGIN APT-GET'S LIBLDB1 UPGRADE ADVISEMENT +++

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kde-runtime kio-extras libsmbclient libxine2 libxine2-misc-plugins
  libxine2-plugins palapeli samba-libs vlc-plugin-samba xine-ui
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libldb1
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 10 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 111 kB of archives.
After this operation, 40.3 MB disk space will be freed.

+++ END APT-GET'S LIBLDB1 UPGRADE ADVISEMENT +++

Once in a while I get lucky where installing/upgrading all other packages first or in a different order remedies the situation. Unfortunately that did not help today.

If you look at this bug report and agree with its assignment, cool. If you think it's something that usually should not make it to bug report status, I'll be happy to receive that feedback as part of the growing process in learning to help you all out.

The reason I say that is because I always end up cringing while determining the severity status of these things. I'm not well enough versed in the whole dependency thing to know whether xine-ui, kde-runtime, and the others being removed by libldb1 is an expected behavior that is very naturally remedied regularly in Sid Unstable. I ultimately choose that severity because, for example today, it doesn't appear to be a natural, expected behavior for a media player and game (e.g. palapeli) to be autoremoved during the *seemingly* unrelated update of a package being addressed by itself.

That's all I have for now. Thank you again so much for your work!

PS As an aside, I just seconds ago installed apt-rdepends with hopes that it proves to be a useful tool for understanding situations like this in the Future.

Cindy Sue :)
Talking Rock, GA USA


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE= (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libldb1 depends on:
ii  libc6          2.21-9
ii  libldap-2.4-2  2.4.42+dfsg-2+b2
ii  libtalloc2     2.1.5-1
ii  libtdb1        1.3.8-1
ii  libtevent0     0.9.28-1

libldb1 recommends no packages.

libldb1 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information