Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I have set APT::Get::Purge and Aptitude::Purge-Unused to true. Aptitude normally honors these settings when it (auto-)deletes packages. But when aptitude runs into a situation where it has to ask the user for confirmation (e.g. when it has to delete other packages because of conflicts or dependencies) it ignores these settings and only deletes the packages without purging the config files. Example: # aptitude install cups-bsd The following NEW packages will be installed: cups-bsd{b} [1.6.2-10] <+71.7 kB> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 29.2 kB of archives. After unpacking 71.7 kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: cups-bsd : Conflicts: lpr but 1:2008.05.17+nmu1 is installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) lpr Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y The following NEW packages will be installed: cups-bsd [1.6.2-10] <+71.7 kB> The following packages will be REMOVED: lpr{a} [1:2008.05.17+nmu1] <-418 kB> ^^^ 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 29.2 kB of archives. After unpacking 346 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] _lpr The following NEW packages will be installed: cups-bsd [1.6.2-10] <+71.7 kB> The following packages will be REMOVED: lpr{ap} [1:2008.05.17+nmu1] <-418 kB> ^^^^ 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 29.2 kB of archives. After unpacking 346 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Aptitude should automatically set lpr to "purge" and not force me to do it manually. Regards Uwe -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov 5 2012 06:20:41 Compiler: g++ 4.7.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.10 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20130608 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-gate.so.1 (0xf773d000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xf71b1000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xf717e000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xf715c000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xf7157000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xf7057000) libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0xf6fc4000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xf6dde000) libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xf6dc4000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xf6d0e000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0xf6cf8000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xf6cdd000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf6bef000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xf6bab000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf6b8f000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xf69df000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xf69db000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xf69d6000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xf69c4000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xf69be000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xf69b5000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf773e000) -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.8.2-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.8.2 ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-4 ii libc6 2.17-7 ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.4 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.9 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.1-2 ii libncursesw5 5.9+20130608-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.17-1 ii libstdc++6 4.8.1-2 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20130608-1 ii libxapian22 1.2.15-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index 0.45 ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.8.2-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii debtags 1.10.2 pn tasksel <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org