The following pkgs are installed: apt-0.3.19cnc55-alt3, emacs-common-21.1-alt13 emacsen-startscripts-0.0.1-alt2 emacs-mode-auctex-11.11-alt1 emacs-nox-21.1-alt13 maxima-5.6-alt2 TeXmacs-1.0-alt1 maxima depends on emacs (virtual) and emacs-mode-auctex; emacs is provided by either emacs-nox or (not installed) emacs-X11. And they both depend on emacs-common. When running `apt-get remove emacs-common\', I expect the whole group of emacs related packages to be removed; at least, I expect that the specified package \'emacs-common\' is actually removed. But here is how apt-get resolves this request: $ apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes remove emacs-common Processing File Dependencies... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Starting Starting 2 Package emacs-nox has broken dep on emacs-common Considering emacs-common 10001 as a solution to emacs-nox 2 Removing emacs-nox rather than change emacs-common Package emacs-mode-auctex has broken dep on emacs Considering emacs-nox 2 as a solution to emacs-mode-auctex 7 Considering emacs-X11 0 as a solution to emacs-mode-auctex 7 Fixing emacs-mode-auctex via install of emacs-X11 Done The following extra packages will be installed: emacs-X11 The following packages will be REMOVED: emacs-nox The following NEW packages will be installed: emacs-X11 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove(replace) and 23 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1489kB of archives. After unpacking 372kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] So the requested removal is not performed. --- --- Adding more arguments makes what I wanted: $ apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes remove emacs-common emacs-mode-auctex emacsen-startscripts Processing File Dependencies... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Starting Starting 2 Package maxima has broken dep on emacs-mode-auctex Considering emacs-mode-auctex 10001 as a solution to maxima 5 Removing maxima rather than change emacs-mode-auctex Package emacs-nox has broken dep on emacs-common Considering emacs-common 10001 as a solution to emacs-nox 2 Removing emacs-nox rather than change emacs-common Package TeXmacs has broken dep on maxima Considering maxima 5 as a solution to TeXmacs 2 Removing TeXmacs rather than change maxima Done The following packages will be REMOVED: TeXmacs emacs-common emacs-mode-auctex emacs-nox emacsen-startscripts maxima 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove(replace) and 23 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 53,6MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
The case can be simplified. Consider only three emacs-related pkgs installed: emacs-common, emacs-nox, emacsen-startscripts. `apt-get remove emacs-common\' doesn\'t remove it actually (the same behaviour as in the report). `apt-get remove emacs-common emacsen-startscripts\' removes all the three pkgs as expected.
Не воспроизводится: # apt-get remove emacs-common Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Selecting emacs21-common for 'emacs-common' The following packages will be REMOVED: emacs-cedet emacs-cedet-speedbar emacs-mode-auctex emacs-preview-latex emacs-preview-latex-el emacs21-X11 emacs21-common lincvs 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 removed and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 39.5MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Надо либо обновить testcase, либо закрыть как решённое. Речь шла о том, что при удалении одной альтернативы APT подставляет другую, тогда как человек хочет просто удалить и всё?
Баг всё ещё актуален, или можно закрывать как worksforme?
Видимо, за несколько лет исправилось...
