From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Julian H <julian_urlaub@outlook.com>
Cc: 26607@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26607: 25.1; Installed packages get status 'dependency' after removing obsolete versions.
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:17:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn3vayaj.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM2PR07MB061250591A89D2ED180FDA578B1A0@AM2PR07MB0612.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com> (Julian H.'s message of "Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:18:30 +0000")
Julian H <julian_urlaub@outlook.com> writes:
> When updating a package and then deleting the obsolete verion, the
> current installed packages don't have the status 'installed'
> afterwards but the status 'dependency'.
>
> How to replicate:
> 1. M-x package-list-packages
> 2. M-x package-menu-mark-obsolete-for-deletion
> 3. delete marked packages
(This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)
With 3), do you mean `M-x package-menu-execute' (i.e., `x')?
> Then the status of the currently installed version becomes
> 'dependency'. For example, this might be problematic when using M-x
> package-autoremove, because these packages would be deleted.
In any case, I can't reproduce this bug, because I don't seem to have
any obsolete packages installed. Anybody else?
Are you still seeing this bug in more recent versions of Emacs?
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2017-04-21 8:18 bug#26607: 25.1; Installed packages get status 'dependency' after removing obsolete versions Julian H
2020-11-30 11:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-01-12 20:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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