Source: zutty Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, I believe this is actually an apt bug, so copying deity, but maybe you'll see my point: There is a difficult-to-reproduce condition where some other package Depends/Recommends x-terminal-emulator, and via dependency resolution, apt installs zutty to satisfy it. I ran into it today while setting up a test VM [1], and I've seen it reported several times in support channels. I suspect without evidence that apt is reverse sorting the list with the goal of selecting xterm. And of course, zutty requires specific graphical support or else it won't launch. I think someone who wants to use zutty will install it intentionally, so the Provides: doesn't help zutty in particular, and removing it would help protect other users from a new install with no working terminal emulator, at least until the apt bug is sorted. Thanks for your work, sney [1] https://file.sney.ca/txt/1cq4/ -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.11.2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
