Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back

From	davidson <davidson@freevolt.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back
Date	2023-03-28 11:00 +0200
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> On 2023-03-27 10:59, davidson wrote:
>> It baffles me that the number of packages suggested for autoremoval is
>> different, between guile-2.2-libs and w3m.
> Me too.

The two packages depend on different collections of supporting
packages.

And so, depending on which package you remove --- guile-2.2-libs or
w3m --- a different set of automatically-installed packages will be
left installed for no apparent purpose (because the package they were
installed to support is now gone), and eligible for autoremoval.

This mostly obvious fact (which wasn't obvious to me yesterday) is
obscured by the sheer number of packages *already* eligible for
autoremoval on the system, before removing either of the two packages
in question.

-- 
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MR BLANKFEIN: An unfortunate name.
MS CLINTON: Which one?
MR BLANKFEIN: The South China sea.

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Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-03-26 11:20 +0200
  Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-03-26 11:30 +0200
  Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-03-26 13:20 +0200
    Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-03-26 15:00 +0200
      Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-03-27 11:10 +0200
        Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-03-27 11:30 +0200
          Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-27 16:50 +0200
          Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-03-28 11:00 +0200
            Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-03-28 12:30 +0200
        Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-03-27 16:50 +0200
  Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2023-03-26 17:40 +0200
    Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-03-26 19:30 +0200
  Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-26 20:20 +0200
    Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-03-27 00:30 +0200
  Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-03-26 23:20 +0200
    Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2023-03-27 00:30 +0200
      Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-03-27 13:30 +0200
        Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-27 13:50 +0200
          Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-03-27 14:20 +0200
            Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-27 14:30 +0200
          Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-03-27 15:10 +0200
            Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-03-27 15:20 +0200
              Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-03-27 16:10 +0200
                Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-03-27 17:40 +0200
                Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-03-27 20:10 +0200
                Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-03-28 07:10 +0200
                Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-03-28 17:10 +0200
                alternative views of PNG (was Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept  back) davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-03-28 13:00 +0200
                Re: alternative views of PNG (was Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages  keptback) gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-03-28 17:40 +0200
                Re: alternative views of PNG (was Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages  keptback) gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-03-28 18:50 +0200
                Re: alternative views of PNG (was Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages  keptback) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-03-28 20:00 +0200
                Re: alternative views of PNG (was Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages  keptback) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-03-28 20:00 +0200
                Re: alternative views of PNG (was Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages  keptback) davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-03-29 09:30 +0200
              Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-04-03 13:50 +0200
            Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-27 16:10 +0200
              Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-03-28 08:30 +0200
                apt colored output (was Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept  back) davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-04-03 08:00 +0200
      Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2023-03-28 11:30 +0200

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