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Hmm this is a very interesting bug. Could you try to mimic it with apt using apt full-upgrade --auto-remove

Nala by default auto-removes files. In the next release there will be a configuration file to stop this behavior, as it's been requested several times. You could try nala update -y --no-autoremove and I'd think we would avoid this.

Additionally which version of Nala are you currently using? I'm assuming it's the latest 0.6.0 since you have my repo configured.

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also I can't really tell but it may be the auto-fixer. Like the packages are marked as auto-removal when they shouldn't be, so the next time you run upgrade it does the equivalent of apt install -f. Nala will automatically try to fix broken packages if there are any, and a package missing it's dependency would qualify for that.

You can test by allowing Nala to remove those packages and then try to upgrade with apt. If this is the case apt should tell you there are broken packages.

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Hmm this is a very interesting bug. Could you try to mimic it with apt using apt full-upgrade --auto-remove

This tries to remove shown packages if they are installed.

Nala by default auto-removes files. In the next release there will be a configuration file to stop this behavior, as it's been requested several times. You could try nala update -y --no-autoremove and I'd think we would avoid this.

This does not remove these packages, as you supposed.

Additionally which version of Nala are you currently using? I'm assuming it's the latest 0.6.0 since you have my repo configured.

Yes, I am using the 0.6.0.

also I can't really tell but it may be the auto-fixer. Like the packages are marked as auto-removal when they shouldn't be, so the next time you run upgrade it does the equivalent of apt install -f. Nala will automatically try to fix broken packages if there are any, and a package missing it's dependency would qualify for that.

You can test by allowing Nala to remove those packages and then try to upgrade with apt. If this is the case apt should tell you there are broken packages.

I did nala upgrade -y, removed proposed packages then apt upgrade -y and apt install -f and it didn't add or remove any package. But when trying to run nala upgrade -y again, it installed these packages.

Considering that, I don't think there are any broken packages on my system and nala is playing with these packages for another reason.

Thanks for your support!

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So apt full-upgrade --auto-remove has the same interaction. I'm wondering if this is actually a bug with Pop_OS packaging. Wouldn't be the first time Pop screwed something up.

Maybe auto-removing by default isn't the correct approach, I'm not exactly sure. On debian and ubuntu I've never seen this happen.

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Going to close this issue as there hasn't been any activity. If you run into this again feel free to open a new one on GitLab.

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