Your message dated Sun, 27 Dec 2020 15:34:49 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#918755: [deborphan] deborphan --guess-all --libdevel
wants to remove python-cffi-backend despite it being needed by deluge
has caused the Debian Bug report #918755,
regarding deborphan: guess-python suggests removing python3-cffi-backend
despite being needed by certbot
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Package: deborphan
Version: 1.7.30
Severity: normal
I have certbot explicitly installed, which depends on python3-certbot, on
python3-cryptography, which depends on (virtual?) packages
python3-cffi-backend-api-min (<= 9729),
python3-cffi-backend-api-max (>= 9729).
Runing deborpha --guess-python suggests uninstalling python3-cffi-backend,
which would force certbot to be removed, which is clearly not desirable.
I'm guessing from context that this is a problem with virtual packages like
this?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (490,
'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.20.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages deborphan depends on:
ii libc6 2.28-2
Versions of packages deborphan recommends:
ii apt 1.8.0~alpha3
ii dialog 1.3-20181022-1
ii gettext-base 0.19.8.1-9
deborphan suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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* Rick Thomas <[email protected]> [201227 10:00]:
[..]
> However, as can be seen from the
> following script, deborphan thinks it's not needed. WTF?
> rbthomas@monk:~$ sudo deborphan -Ps --guess-all --libdevel
^^^^^^^^^^^
from man deborphan:
| --guess-*
| It will pretend the package is in the main/libs section,
| and report it as if it were a library. This method is
| in no way perfect or even reliable, so beware when using
| this!
Good luck.
Chris
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