Package: git-all Version: 1:2.20.1-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I did a fresh install of Debian Stable using the firmware-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso image and installed the following tasks: Debian desktop environment, XFCE, print server and standard system utilities. After this I ran a script which installed my usual packages. For reference these were: ----- PACKAGELIST="emacs texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-extra texlive-science texlive-games perl-tk latexmk auto-multiple-choice auto-multiple-choice-doc auctex psutils pstoedit pdftk pdfchain asymptote mkdocs mkdocs-doc elpa-markdown-mode xfig xfig-doc gsfonts-x11 fig2ps imagemagick inkscape krita blender build-essential glibc-doc git-all jupyter-core jupyter-notebook python3-widgetsnbextension jupyter-nbconvert python-notebook-doc python3-seaborn texlive-xetex python3-plotly python3-numpy python-numpy-doc python3-scipy python-scipy-doc idle3 python3-matplotlib python3-matplotlib-venn python-matplotlib-doc python3-mpmath python-mpmath-doc python3-gmpy2 python3-sympy python3-sympy-doc ipython3 python-ipython-doc wxmaxima evince sshfs sudo audacious gnome-sound-recorder simple-scan youtube-dl gnome-system-tools unattended-upgrades xournal deja-dup thunderbird locate xinput galculator obs-studio gigolo" -------- After this was complete my networking and the lightdm window manager were no longer present. Looking at the apt log showed that my apt -y autoinstall of git-all had caused the removal of the task-xfce-desktop package, the network-manager the lightdm display manager as well as other core packages. This was obviously unexpected. Next I reinstalled Debian as above without the git-all package and tried to install the various dependencies of git-all to see what was going on. Looking at the dependencies of git-all shows that it recommends git-daemon-run or git-daemon-sysvinit. It turns out that the git-daemon-run package is the one which appears to require the removal of the core packages above if you try to install it after a fresh install. The upshot is that because the default Debian install method is to install recommends and because git-all recommends git-daemon-run which in turn does not play nicely with the basic XFCE installation described above the system becomes broken. My suggestion would be to do one of the following: 1) Fix the git-daemon-run package or its dependency which is causing this. This appears to be new behaviour in Debian 10 as it worked before in 9. 2) Make the default recommend git-daemon-sysvinit which at least does not cause this problem. 3) Make these recommended packages suggested only. Thanks for your attention to this. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages git-all depends on: ii git 1:2.20.1-2 pn git-cvs <none> ii git-doc 1:2.20.1-2 pn git-el <none> pn git-email <none> ii git-gui 1:2.20.1-2 pn git-mediawiki <none> pn git-svn <none> ii gitk 1:2.20.1-2 pn gitweb <none> Versions of packages git-all recommends: pn git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit <none> git-all suggests no packages.
