Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade
Date	2021-06-29 18:20 +0200
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On Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 08:29:22 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 28 iun 21, 09:46:17, David Wright wrote:
> > 
> > But your evening run of   apt-get -y dist-upgrade   was unconstrained,
> > and so shim-signed could be removed because it was no longer being
> > held onto as a Depends or Recommends.
> 
> Except that `apt-get dist-upgrade` doesn't do that (`autoremove` does), 
> it only removes packages when it determines that it's needed to complete 
> the dist-upgrade, so a Conflicts or Breaks with an upgraded package.

So we can presume, perhaps, that it's a case of ranking:
shim-signed being installed as a Recommends is ranked lower
than upgrading shim-signed-common, and so it gets removed.

All my systems were upgraded successfully because I ignored
any arm64 bug reports, so all my lists and caches have been
refreshed since, and I don't have access to the control data
for shim-signed/1.33+15+1533136590.3beb971-7.

Perhaps others can make better informed guesses.

Cheers,
David.

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Disappearning shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-06-22 10:10 +0200
  Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-22 20:20 +0200
    Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-06-27 06:50 +0200
      Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-28 16:50 +0200
        Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-29 07:30 +0200
          Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-29 18:20 +0200
            Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-06-29 23:50 +0200
              Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-06-30 04:30 +0200
              Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-30 05:50 +0200
              Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-30 10:20 +0200

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