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25.1; Installed packages get status 'dependency' after removing obsolete versions.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Julian H <julian_urlaub <at> outlook.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 25.1; Installed packages get status 'dependency' after removing
 obsolete versions.
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:18:30 +0000

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

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.

Message #8 received at 26607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Julian H <julian_urlaub <at> outlook.com>
Cc: 26607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26607: 25.1; Installed packages get status 'dependency'
 after removing obsolete versions.
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:17:56 +0100

Julian H <julian_urlaub <at> 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?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #13 received at 26607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Julian H <julian_urlaub <at> outlook.com>
Cc: 26607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26607: 25.1; Installed packages get status 'dependency'
 after removing obsolete versions.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 21:29:49 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Are you still seeing this bug in more recent versions of Emacs?

More information was requested, but no response was given within a
month, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please respond to this email and we'll reopen the bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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