Specifying multiple binary package dependencies

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 12:33, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
>
> My question was a technical, rather than a policy one: if an installed
> package A "Depends" on B, apparently you can end up with dpkg removing B and
> not doing anything about A. That just does not compute for me. My question
> was that if merely specifying that A "Depends" on B is insufficient, then
> what is?
>
> If the answer here is "well, the policy says don't do it", then that's just
> my indirect answer: no, this cannot be enforced by deb packages'
> dependencies.

This thread is well beyond my knowledge base, but have you tried
installing and removing via apt rather than dpkg

Colin