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   Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈 (juliank@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 02:29:20 JST Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈

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   The next step is to actually make this work correctly - right now the API isn't actually exposed from libapt-private.

   And then rewrite the reporting. For each step of the implication graph, we need to look back up the original Dependency in the cache and then render one per line.

   And this will become the error reporting format too so you get error messages like

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     Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈 (juliank@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 02:29:20 JST Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈

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     So you will get an error along the lines of

     exim4 is requested to be installed

     but
     postfix is manually installed,
     postfix Conflicts mail-transport-agent,
     exim4 Provides mail-transport-agent.

     Instead of

     Error: Conflict: postfix:amd64 -> postfix:amd64=3.8.6-1build2 -> not exim4-daemon-heavy:amd64=4.97-4ubuntu4 -> not exim4:amd64=4.97-4ubuntu4 but exim4:amd64=4.97-4ubuntu4

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     Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈 (juliank@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 02:29:21 JST Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈

     This apt-cache why command is different from what you expect but it's a PoC.

     $ apt-cache why ~i~nlibmutter
     role-desktop:amd64 -> role-desktop:amd64=2024.03.04.1736.48 -> gnome-shell-extension-manager:amd64=0.5.1-1 -> gnome-shell:amd64=46.1-1ubuntu1 -> gir1.2-mutter-14:amd64=46.1-2ubuntu1 -> libmutter-14-0:amd64=46.1-2ubuntu1 -> libmutter-14-0:amd64