Subject: Re: bug#59652: 29.0.50; Error trying to delete `P': (error "Package `P' is used by `Q' as dependency, not deleting")

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 04:29:19 +0200

Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Since around approx. 10 or 20 days, whenever I do U in M-x
> package-list-packages [...] I often get errors like
>
> | Error trying to delete `magit-section-20220929.1014': (error
> | "Package `magit-section-20220929.1014' is used by `magit' as
> | dependency, not deleting")
> | Error trying to delete `with-editor-20220810.1159': (error "Package
> | `with-editor-20220810.1159' is used by `git-commit' as dependency,
> | not deleting")

Dunno why but the problem is completely gone for me since quite a while
now (several weeks).  And nobody else seems to have seen this issue.

So I'm closing this for now.  When somebody (including me) is seeing
this again we can reopen.

Michael.