Removing DER as a dependency breaks websites

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Created on 3 July 2025, about 2 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Upgrading from 2.0.0 to 2.0.2 causes site to white screen on saving content and causes drush updb to error.

I suspect this is due to removing the requirement on Dynamic Entity Reference without providing an update hook to uninstall it first.

Steps to reproduce

Upgrade module from 2.0.0 to 2.0.2
Run drush updb - will fail
Attempt to save content - site white screens

Proposed resolution

Re-add Dynamic Entity Reference as a dependency and provide a proper update hook to uninstall the module before removing it entirely.

This will absolutely cause issues going from 2.0.x to 2.1.x as well assuming there's no update hook to uninstall the dependency.

🐛 Bug report

Status

Active

Version

2.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇨🇦Canada nickdjm

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Issue created by @nickdjm
Comment about 2 months ago →
🇨🇦Canada nickdjm
For reference: It is specifically this commit that is the issue: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/linkchecker/-/commit/5961f6777206e874...
Comment 27 days ago →
🇺🇸United States butterwise
Just confirming this behavior. Adding DER to my composer allowed me to proceed with the update and db update.
Comment 26 days ago →
🇺🇸United States butterwise
Also, this appears to be a duplicate of 3533235 🐛 Regression: After updating to 2.0.2, broken links report doesn't work Active .
Comment 10 days ago →
🇨🇦Canada joseph.olstad
Please see documentation issue for the fix/workaround.

🐛 Upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 removes DER module without uninstalling it first Active

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