On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 08:12:06AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > I though have no idea why apt regards manpages-de as > essential. X-Debbugs-Cc'ing the APT developers at
Does the output of $ apt rdepends manpages-de --important include more than task-german and parl-desktop-eu? In particular, does it include a local metapackage which is tagged Essential/Important:yes? (Important packages are considered like Essential which here is probably wrong as we shouldn't make ordering guarantees for it… but then, I guess that is part of why libgcc ↔ libgcc_s works now. And btw: The commandline flag stands for "important dependencies", which in this case is Depends and Pre-Depends, it has nothing to do with the Important flag or the other billion things also called important) If not have a look into /var/backups for a dpkg.status file from before your (failed) upgrade, so that we might be able to reproduce this. Best regards David Kalnischkies
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