Fwd: ubuntu-wsl=1.478 pulls in unnecessary packages for WSL 1

[Henri Girard]

Yes, but I installed it because I don't mind having a lot of files, 
because it  is the only way to use ubuntu softs one can't use on w11. 
For example sagemath is the last version 9.5 on jammy. I use gwsl too 
which is fine to use in root

Regards

Henri

Le 20/03/2022 à 17:33, iBug a écrit :
> Hello all,
>
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> From: iBug <i at ibugone.com>
> Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 10:40 PM
> Subject: ubuntu-wsl=1.478 pulls in unnecessary packages for WSL 1
> To: <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc: iBug <i at ibugone.com>
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>
> Hello all,
>
> When following routine updates for my WSL1, which has already been
> upgraded to Jammy, I noticed a bunch of unwanted packages:
>
> # apt upgrade --no-install-recommends
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    apport byobu dbus gettext-base gir1.2-glib-2.0
> gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 iproute2 libappstream4 libargon2-1 libbpf0
> libcryptsetup12 libdevmapper1.02.1 libgirepository-1.0-1
> libglib2.0-bin libgstreamer1.0-0 libip4tc2 libkmod2 libmnl0
> libnewt0.52
>    libpackagekit-glib2-18 libpam-systemd libpolkit-agent-1-0
> libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libstemmer0d libxmlb2 libxtables12 packagekit
> pkexec policykit-1 polkitd python3-apport python3-blinker
> python3-cffi-backend python3-cryptography python3-distro python3-gi
>    python3-httplib2 python3-importlib-metadata python3-jeepney
> python3-jwt python3-keyring python3-launchpadlib
> python3-lazr.restfulclient python3-lazr.uri python3-more-itertools
> python3-newt python3-oauthlib python3-problem-report python3-pyparsing
>    python3-secretstorage python3-six python3-software-properties
> python3-wadllib python3-zipp screen software-properties-common systemd
> systemd-sysv
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>    ubuntu-wsl
> 1 upgraded, 58 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 11.4 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 43.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> Clearly something's going wrong with the pending version for ubuntu-wsl:
>
> # apt show ubuntu-wsl=1.478
> ...
> Depends: apport, binutils, byobu, curl, dirmngr, git, gnupg, htop,
> patch, screen, software-properties-common, tmux, vim, wsl-setup
> ...
> # apt show ubuntu-wsl=1.477
> ...
> Depends: gnupg, wsl-setup
> Recommends: dbus-x11, show-motd
> ...
>
> The offending dependency chain is:
>
> ubuntu-wsl=1.478 -> software-properties-common -> packagekit ->
> policykit-1 -> polkitd -> default-logind|logind (selected
> libpam-systemd) -> everything else
>
> I've put ubuntu-wsl on hold on my WSL1 installation. Hopefully someone
> will find a way to sort things out and keep systemd and dbus out of
> WSL1, where they're not designed to work.
>
> Best regards,
> iBug
>