It looks like the problem is in deborphan. /etc/upgrade-system.conf has
ORPHANOPTS="--guess-all --libdevel"
and something about that combination leads deborphan to decide it doesn't need
the package "python-cffi-backend", which is a lineal dependent of deborphan.
The reason that upgrade-system wants to purge deluge is that with
python-cffi-backend gone, deluge is missing a critical dependency. This is all
described Bug#918755 .
If I add "--no-guess-python" to the option list, deborphan no longer lists
python-cffi-backend, but I'm concerned that doing that will have wider
side-effects.
Details:
rbthomas@monk:~$ deborphan --guess-all --libdevel
python-cffi-backend
rbthomas@monk:~$ deborphan --guess-all --no-guess-python --libdevel
rbthomas@monk:~$
Hope this helps!
Rick
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020, at 3:03 PM, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> la 26. jouluk. 2020 klo 21.30 Rick Thomas (rbtho...@rcthomas.org) kirjoitti:
> >
> > Package: upgrade-system
> > Version: 1.7.3.1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> >
> > The package "deluge" is manually (i.e. not "auto") installed on my
> > system. I use it daily. But when I try to run "upgrade-system" it lists
> > deluge and a bunch of other packages that deluge depends on as needing
> > to be removed. Why is this?
>
> Check the deborphan options you have configured in
> /etc/upgrade-system.conf for something that tries to purge python
> packages. To manually fine-tune this, you can run 'sudo deborphan'
> with different combinations of --guess options.
>
> Martin-Éric
>
