Your message dated Sat, 12 Sep 2020 17:41:43 -0700
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and subject line Re: git-all: Installing on Debian XFCE base install removes
core system packages
has caused the Debian Bug report #934646,
regarding git-all: Installing git-all on Debian XFCE base install removes core
system packages
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: git-all
Version: 1:2.20.1-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I did a fresh install of Debian Stable using the
firmware-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso image and installed the following tasks:
Debian desktop environment, XFCE, print server and standard system utilities.
After this I ran a script which installed my usual packages. For reference
these were:
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PACKAGELIST="emacs texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-extra
texlive-science texlive-games perl-tk latexmk auto-multiple-choice
auto-multiple-choice-doc auctex psutils pstoedit pdftk pdfchain asymptote
mkdocs mkdocs-doc elpa-markdown-mode xfig xfig-doc gsfonts-x11 fig2ps
imagemagick inkscape krita blender build-essential glibc-doc git-all
jupyter-core jupyter-notebook python3-widgetsnbextension jupyter-nbconvert
python-notebook-doc python3-seaborn texlive-xetex python3-plotly python3-numpy
python-numpy-doc python3-scipy python-scipy-doc idle3 python3-matplotlib
python3-matplotlib-venn python-matplotlib-doc python3-mpmath python-mpmath-doc
python3-gmpy2 python3-sympy python3-sympy-doc ipython3 python-ipython-doc
wxmaxima evince sshfs sudo audacious gnome-sound-recorder simple-scan
youtube-dl gnome-system-tools unattended-upgrades xournal deja-dup thunderbird
locate xinput galculator obs-studio gigolo"
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After this was complete my networking and the lightdm window manager were no
longer present. Looking at the apt log showed that my apt -y autoinstall of
git-all had caused the removal of the task-xfce-desktop package, the
network-manager the lightdm display manager as well as other core packages.
This was obviously unexpected.
Next I reinstalled Debian as above without the git-all package and tried to
install the various dependencies of git-all to see what was going on. Looking
at the dependencies of git-all shows that it recommends git-daemon-run or
git-daemon-sysvinit. It turns out that the git-daemon-run package is the one
which appears to require the removal of the core packages above if you try to
install it after a fresh install.
The upshot is that because the default Debian install method is to install
recommends and because git-all recommends git-daemon-run which in turn does not
play nicely with the basic XFCE installation described above the system becomes
broken. My suggestion would be to do one of the following:
1) Fix the git-daemon-run package or its dependency which is causing this.
This appears to be new behaviour in Debian 10 as it worked before in 9.
2) Make the default recommend git-daemon-sysvinit which at least does not cause
this problem.
3) Make these recommended packages suggested only.
Thanks for your attention to this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages git-all depends on:
ii git 1:2.20.1-2
pn git-cvs <none>
ii git-doc 1:2.20.1-2
pn git-el <none>
pn git-email <none>
ii git-gui 1:2.20.1-2
pn git-mediawiki <none>
pn git-svn <none>
ii gitk 1:2.20.1-2
pn gitweb <none>
Versions of packages git-all recommends:
pn git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit <none>
git-all suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
Greg Price wrote:
> Given the nature of the bug and the fix I think it would be
> appropriate to upload a similar fix for an update to buster (Debian
> 10). But I can't speak for Jonathan and he may feel differently.
Indeed, I don't think this is a candidate for an update to stable.
The behavior you're describing is not in the git package --- it's a
combination of
- runit packaging having problems
- the apt command being more willing to deinstall important packages
than to install the second alternative in a Recommends (or to not
install something from Recommends at all)
For the reason described in the changelog, I think it makes sense
to downgrade that Recommends to a Suggests for the next Debian
release because even people *not* affected by those two problems
benefit from not getting a git service automatically installed. But
that's the kind of change that doesn't qualify for a stable update.
On the other hand, a fix to the runit packaging in stable would make
sense to me.
Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan
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