(In reply to Stephan van den Akker from comment #13) > The error messages about grass and qgis-plugin-grass are gone now when > uninstalling libproj12. So, on my system nothing prevents me from > uninstalling libproj12 any more. > > The remaining concern is that libproj12 remains on systems and causes > problems in qgis an perhaps grass (see comment 11). IMHO these programs > should explicitly call libproj13 or force the removal of libproj12. So if I understand correctly, issue was solved by rebuilding affected packages. Forcing removal of old libproj would be challenging - as in violating packaging rules/guidelines. We have differently named packages with libraries in order to allow installation of multiple versions at same time.