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When removes package X completely, Synaptic must remove all X dependencies completely

Bug #23036 reported by Ricardo Pérez López
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #13165: auto-purge dependencies on purge too. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

For example:

1. Suppose I have mysql-admin and mysql-admin-common installed.
2. Go to Synaptic, select mysql-admin-common and select Package -> Mark for
Complete Removal
3. Synaptic tells that mysql-admin must be marked for removal too. I accept.
4. Now I have one package marked to be removal completely (mysql-admin-common),
and another package marked to be removal not completely (mysql-admin).

I think mysql-admin must be marked for complete removal, like mysql-admin-common.

Therefore, I think Synaptic must marks for complete removal all packages which
depends of a package marked for complete removal.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

*** Bug 22256 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in synaptic:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) wrote :

Hi Ricardo,

I don't think that this is the purpose of "completely remove". As I understand it, completely remove is more to do with user files than dependencies etc.

You may be interested to look at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageDependencyManagement
which sounds like the issue you are talking about.

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Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo) wrote :

Hi Luna:

When I say "completely remove", I mean "removing and purging config files". It's the difference between "apt-get remove" and "apt-get --purge remove".

Thanks for your info.

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Jade (stactrac) wrote :

Any progress on this? I'd expect it to be a very popular and important feature... I'm clearly not the only one that thinks that:

"Priority: High. This specification is strongly desired by the project leaders. The feature will definitely get review time and contributions would be most effective if directed at a feature with this priority."

Thanks & Regards.
Keep up the good work :-)

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

Take a look at the specs that will be discussed at Paris.

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
assignee: Michael Vogt (mvo) → nobody
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Twisted Lincoln, Inc. (twistedlincoln) wrote :

This seems like a no brainer to me. If one wants to remove all traces of a package (including config files), it makes perfect sense that they'd want to do the same for the dependencies. Make it a preferences option if nothing else...

As it stands, one has to go back and purse the dependencies in a separate step...

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #13165, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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