Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1.2 Severity: normal When I start "aptitude" (no arguments, curses interface), packages are sometimes selected for upgrade by default, for no apparent reason. Since this behavior is not documented in the man page, I assume that this is a bug.
Such packages are sometimes in a broken state, which is annoying. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-debian $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Aug 25 2013 12:37:10 Compiler: g++ 4.8.1 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-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffe8dc3000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007ffbd1aa6000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007ffbd1876000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007ffbd164c000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007ffbd1447000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007ffbd1147000) libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x00007ffbd0ea6000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007ffbd0ac3000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007ffbd08ab000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007ffbd05f9000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0 (0x00007ffbd03df000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ffbd01c3000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ffbcfebf000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007ffbcfbc1000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ffbcf9ab000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007ffbcf5fe000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ffbcf3fb000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ffbcf1f7000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007ffbcefe6000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007ffbcefe0000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007ffbcedd7000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ffbd242e000) -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, 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 0.6.8.2-1.2 ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.11.1 ii libboost-iostreams1.54.0 1.54.0-2+b1 ii libc6 2.17-92 ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.4 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.9 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.1-9 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 4.8.1-9 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 0.46 ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.8.2-1.2 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.17 -- 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