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Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

From Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename
Date 2020-04-22 10:10 +0200
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On 2020-04-22 08:33:23 +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 
> > You did not understand. Doing this removes both the transitional
> > package *and* the new (renamed) package... unless one marks the new
> > package as manually installed (which is the thing that I wanted to
> > be done automatically).
> 
> If there is a package depending on another one. the dependency will not be
> removed, so if a replacement is to be installed that depends on the package
> in question this package will not be removed.

Could you please read what I've said earlier in the original post?

> > No. The package could be so important that if it were uninstalled
> > first, one could lose the network connection, which would be terribly
> > bad when one cannot have a physical access to the machine before
> > several days or weeks. Even if things still seem to be fine after the
> > uninstall, things could break in the future, and it could be difficult
> > to trace back to the original cause.
> 
> This is true, but it I do not remember when the last time I had something
> like this. You should be reading what it says before pressing "y" on the
> command line.

Could you please read what I've said earlier in the original post?

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cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due  to rename Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-04-21 17:20 +0200
  Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename nito@dismail.de - 2020-04-21 17:50 +0200
    Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-04-21 18:00 +0200
      Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-04-21 21:10 +0200
        Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-04-22 01:30 +0200
          Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-04-22 08:40 +0200
            Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-04-22 10:10 +0200
              Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-04-22 22:30 +0200
            Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2020-05-14 11:20 +0200
  Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2020-04-21 19:10 +0200
  Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-22 11:40 +0200
    Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-04-22 12:30 +0200
      Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-22 23:10 +0200
        Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-04-23 03:00 +0200
          Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-23 21:10 +0200
            Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-04-24 21:10 +0200
              Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-25 06:50 +0200
                Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-04-25 21:50 +0200
                Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-28 17:30 +0200
                Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-05-06 12:40 +0200
                Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-08 01:30 +0200
                Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2020-05-12 12:20 +0200
                Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-13 17:50 +0200
                Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages  due to rename Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-14 07:50 +0200

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