Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.6-1 Severity: important I have the packages iceweasel and libwine on hold, and all of a sudden "aptitude safe-upgrade" declares packages that depend on them as unused and wants to remove them:
,---- | $ LANG=C aptitude -s -V -D safe-upgrade | Resolving dependencies... | The following packages will be REMOVED: | iceweasel-l10n-de{u} [1:38.6.1esr-1~deb8u1] wine{u} [1.6.2-22] wine32{u} [1.6.2-22] (D: wine) | 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 6 not upgraded. | Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1014 kB will be freed. | | Note: Using 'Simulate' mode. | Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] | Would download/install/remove packages. `---- None of these three packages is marked as manually installed: ,---- | $ LANG=C aptitude versions libwine wine wine32 iceweasel iceweasel-l10n-de | Package iceweasel: | ih 38.6.1esr-1~deb8u1 100 | ph 44.0.2-1 unstable 500 | ph 45.0~b5-1 experimental 101 | | Package iceweasel-l10n-de: | i 1:38.6.1esr-1~deb8u1 100 | p 1:44.0.2-1 unstable 500 | p 1:45.0~b5-1 experimental 101 | | Package libwine: | ihA 1.6.2-22 100 | phA 1.8.1-2 unstable 500 | | Package wine: | i 1.6.2-22 100 | p 1.8.1-2 unstable 500 | | Package wine32: | i 1.6.2-22 100 | p 1.8.1-2 unstable 500 `---- A workaround is to put the affected packages on hold as well, but this ought not to be necessary. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: eterm-color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.7.6 Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160220 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.6.2 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160213 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-gate.so.1 (0xf77eb000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0xf726a000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xf7235000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xf7210000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xf7209000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0xf7106000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xf7024000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0xf700b000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0xf6ff1000) libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0xf6fec000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xf6de2000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xf6dc5000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf6c55000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xf6c07000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf6bea000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xf6a32000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xf6a2e000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xf6a29000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libresolv.so.2 (0xf6a10000) libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xf69f3000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xf69e0000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0xf69b7000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0xf69a4000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xf699a000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xf6994000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x56560000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.8-ckt4-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.7.6-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.3 ii libboost-filesystem1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-system1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libc6 2.21-9 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-9 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160213-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.2-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.11.0-1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-9 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160213-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.22-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.7.6-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.47+nmu2 pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.34 -- no debconf information