Package: piuparts Version: 1.4.4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I observed errors in recent piuparts run of zfs-linux [1]. dracut 103-2 adds init as its dependency, i.e. there is an dep chain: zfs-dracut -> dracut -> dracut-core -> init When piuparts tries to uninstall zfs-dracut, it would also remove all its dependencies, including init, thus hitting an APT error: > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > init systemd-sysv (due to init) > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 74 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > E: Essential packages were removed and -y was used without > --allow-remove-essential. However, dracut itself does not encounter such error [2] thanks to an exception rule [3]. Adding zfs-dracut could definitely eliminate this error. Yet all pkgs depending on dracut (or any pkg in this exception list) will be affected by this, if I understand how piuparts works correctly. So I think it might be better to allow some "transitivity", i.e., if any package has a transitive dependency in this list, then the exception should also apply to it. [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/zfsonlinux-team/zfs/-/jobs/6380796/raw [2]: https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/pass/dracut_103-2.log [3]: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/piuparts/-/commit/f0f1b5e83c704cb08c6cf32757b05e9c8946f3c1 Thanks, Shengqi Chen -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
