Hello Santiago, Thanks a lot for your information. Yes, I'm sure everything happened after I run sudo apt install git-all. Greetings, Christian On Sun, 2021-03-14 at 14:52 -0400, Santiago Torres Arias wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 07:23:40PM +0100, Christian Strasser wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I installed Git yesterday on my system. For that I used “sudo apt- > > get > > install git-all”. > > I'm not sure if this list is aware of this specific debian meta- > package, > but this reads like a scary packaging mistake that needs fixing asap. > I > think this would probably be sent to the Debian packager for git-all. > You can probably ask the people listed as uploaders in here[1] > > > During the installation a lot of very important > > packages got removed! It was horrible, and I couldn’t use my gnome > > desktop environment at all! A lot off dependencies got lost! > > Fortunately, I could save my system through read out the > > information > > about removed packages from the apt history. > > > > Today I totally removed git and tried to install everything again > > with > > the same instruction. The same misbehavior did happen! > > > > For more information I added the history as an attachment to this > > email. > > > > Information about my system: > > > > Kernel : Linux 4.19.0-14-amd64 (x86_64) > > Version : #1 SMP Debian 4.19.171-2 (2021-01-30) > > C Library : GNU C Library / (Debian GLIBC 2.28-10) 2.28 > > Distribution : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) > > > > Gnome : Version: 3.30.2-11~deb10u2 (apt-cache show gnome- > > shell grep Version) -> 3.30.2 > > > > Best regards, > > Christian > > ... > > Start-Date: 2021-03-13 19:10:24 > > Remove: gnome-color-manager:amd64 (3.30.0-2), gnome-session:amd64 > > (3.30.1-2), gvfs-backends:amd64 (1.38.1-5), gnome-control- > > center:amd64 (1:3.30.3-2~deb10u1), chrome-gnome-shell:amd64 (10.1- > > 5), rtkit:amd64 (0.11-6), gnome-software:amd64 (3.30.6-5), gnome- > > settings-daemon:amd64 (3.30.2-3), network-manager-gnome:amd64 > > (1.8.20-1.1), gnome-sushi:amd64 (3.30.0-2), gdm3:amd64 (3.30.2-3), > > network-manager:amd64 (1.14.6-2+deb10u1), packagekit-tools:amd64 > > (1.1.12-5), gnome-tweak-tool:amd64 (3.30.2-1), gnome-disk- > > utility:amd64 (3.30.2-3), gnome-tweaks:amd64 (3.30.2-1), gnome- > > music:amd64 (3.30.2-1), udisks2:amd64 (2.8.1-4), gvfs-fuse:amd64 > > (1.38.1-5), nautilus:amd64 (3.30.5-2), gnome-shell-extension-dash- > > to-panel:amd64 (18-1), systemd-sysv:amd64 (241-7~deb10u6), libpam- > > systemd:amd64 > > These last removals in particular look rather bad, but I don't see > how > they could be triggered by downloading git-all. Are you sure this > only > happens when you run apt install git-all? > > Cheers! > -Santiago > > [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/git
