Debian Bug report logs - #914869
Recommends obsolete libavcodec versions preventing their autoremoval

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: Recommends obsolete libavcodec versions preventing their autoremoval

Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 06:39:05 +0100

Package: firefox
Version: 63.0.3-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

today I noticed that I still had libavcodec57 installed, which also kept
the obsolete libx264-152 installed, which no longer exists in the
archive.

The reason why those libaries were not autoremoved by "apt autoremove"
is that firefox has an explicit Recommends on libavcodec57, even if it's
only an alternative Recommends.

Please consider dropping old versions of libavcodec from the alternative
Recommends list so obsolete libraries can be properly autoremoved.

Regards,
Michael



-- Package-specific info:


-- Addons package information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.8.6
ii  fontconfig                2.13.1-2
ii  libasound2                1.1.7-1+b1
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.30.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.27-8
ii  libcairo-gobject2         1.16.0-1
ii  libcairo2                 1.16.0-1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.12.10-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.110-3
ii  libevent-2.1-6            2.1.8-stable-4
ii  libffi6                   3.2.1-9
ii  libfontconfig1            2.13.1-2
ii  libfreetype6              2.9.1-3
ii  libgcc1                   1:8.2.0-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.38.0+dfsg-6
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.58.1-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                3.24.1-2
ii  libjsoncpp1               1.7.4-3
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.20-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.40-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.42.4-4
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.25.3-2
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-5
ii  libstdc++6                8.2.0-10
ii  libvpx5                   1.7.0-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.7-1
ii  libx11-xcb1               2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxcb-shm0               1.13.1-1
ii  libxcb1                   1.13.1-1
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.5-1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.15-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

Versions of packages firefox recommends:
ii  libavcodec57  7:3.4.3-1
ii  libavcodec58  7:4.0.3-1

Versions of packages firefox suggests:
ii  fonts-lmodern          2.004.5-5
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.1-4
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-6
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.16.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.24.32-3
ii  pulseaudio             12.2-2

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Recommends obsolete libavcodec versions preventing their autoremoval

Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 06:45:11 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Control: clone -1
Control: reassign -1 firefox-esr 60.3.0esr-2

Am 28.11.18 um 06:39 schrieb Michael Biebl:

> Please consider dropping old versions of libavcodec from the alternative
> Recommends list so obsolete libraries can be properly autoremoved.

Manually purging libavcodec57 frees up 32.7MB of disk space:

# apt purge libavcodec57 --autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libavcodec57* libavutil55* libswresample2* libx264-152* libx265-160*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 32.7 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]


firefox-esr has the same problem, so cloning the bug report accordingly.


Regards,
Michael


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