[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1099706: dbus: needlessly depends on base-files or usr-is-merged

[Michael Biebl]

Hi

Am 07.03.25 um 10:58 schrieb Simon McVittie:
> If the alternative dependency on usr-is-merged is a practical problem for
> whatever reason, now that the required version of base-files has been
> around for a while we could remove that, leaving only base-files.

My experience is, that "apt autoremove" will not remove obsolete 
transitional packages, as long as an installed package still references 
it, even if it's only an alternative dependency [*].

For "apt autoremove" to work, the package must be in state "auto" 
though. If that's the case for usr-is-merged I'm not quite sure. 
Probably not for bookworm systems where usr-is-merged is installed as 
part of debootstrap iirc.

Regards,
Michael




[*] That's why I'm not a huge fan of the  "polkitd | policykit-1" 
alternative dependencies and only used them where backportability is 
important.




-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: OpenPGP_signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 840 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-utopia-maintainers/attachments/20250307/8313190d/attachment-0001.sig>