Bug#902314: libudev1: Installing libudev1 239-1 removes 48 critical packages

[Jean-Francois Pirus]

Package: libudev1
Version: 239-1
Severity: critical
Tags: d-i
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Dear Maintainer,

Running
apt dist-upgrade
when the only thing being upgraded is
libudev-dev libudev1 libudev1:i386

Removed the following packages, leaving X unuseable, not network, not
mouse,
keyboard etc...
  gvfs-fuse initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-core kpartx libblockdev-
mdraid2
libguestfs-hfsplus libguestfs-perl libguestfs-reiserfs libguestfs-tools
  libguestfs-xfs libguestfs0 linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64 mdadm nautilus
network-
manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-openvpn
  network-manager-openvpn-gnome pulseaudio-module-bluetooth tlp-rdw
udev
udisks2 upower xfce4-power-manager xfce4-power-manager-plugins
  xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-
xorg-input-libinput xserver-xorg-input-mouse
  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-
video-
amdgpu xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
  xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-radeon

Also "apt autoremove" was run just before doing this. 

ie:
root at Tosh:~# apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  bluez-obexd cryptsetup-bin cryptsetup-run db-util easy-rsa extlinux
gdisk
gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 gvfs-libs hfsplus iputils-arping irqbalance
  klibc-utils ldmtool libafflib0v5 libatasmart4 libbfio1 libblockdev-
crypto2
libblockdev-fs2 libblockdev-loop2 libblockdev-part-err2
  libblockdev-part2 libblockdev-swap2 libblockdev-utils2 libblockdev2
libbytesize1 libconfig9 libdate-manip-perl libegl1-mesa libewf2
libexempi3
  libhfsp0 libhivex0 libintl-perl libintl-xs-perl libklibc libldm-1.0-0 
libndp0
libnfs11 libnm0 libnma0 libpkcs11-helper1 libpython3.6
  libsys-virt-perl libteamdctl0 libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 libtsk13
libudisks2-0
libvolume-key1 libwin-hivex-perl libxfont2 libxml-xpath-perl libyara3
  linux-base lsscsi mobile-broadband-provider-info nautilus-data opensc
opensc-
pkcs11 openvpn scrub sleuthkit supermin udftools
  xfce4-power-manager-data xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base
xfonts-
scalable xserver-common zerofree
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  blueman bluetooth bluez cockpit-networkmanager cockpit-storaged
cryptsetup
cryptsetup-initramfs gnome-disk-utility gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-daemons
  gvfs-fuse initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-core kpartx libblockdev-
mdraid2
libguestfs-hfsplus libguestfs-perl libguestfs-reiserfs libguestfs-tools
  libguestfs-xfs libguestfs0 linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64 mdadm nautilus
network-
manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-openvpn
  network-manager-openvpn-gnome pulseaudio-module-bluetooth tlp-rdw
udev
udisks2 upower xfce4-power-manager xfce4-power-manager-plugins
  xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-
xorg-input-libinput xserver-xorg-input-mouse
  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-
video-
amdgpu xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
  xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-radeon
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  makedev
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libudev-dev libudev1 libudev1:i386
3 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 48 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 405 kB of archives.
After this operation, 373 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]



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

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled