Control: found -1 2.5.0 On 2015-04-05 19:40:22 -0700, d3fault wrote: > `apt-get install <virtual-package>` && `apt-get remove <virtual-package>` > does not remove the packages that were implicitly installed, and should.
This has just happened to me, and I got very confused, in particular because <virtual-package> was part of a long list of packages (to rebuild a package). This makes some answers to https://askubuntu.com/questions/247549/is-it-possible-to-undo-an-apt-get-install-command fail (though they can also fail for other reasons). A simple testcase from what I got: # apt install dh-sequence-gir Note, selecting 'gobject-introspection' instead of 'dh-sequence-gir' The following additional packages will be installed: python3-mako python3-markdown The following NEW packages will be installed: gobject-introspection python3-mako python3-markdown (I've removed unrelated output.) In the /var/log/apt/history.log file: Commandline: apt install dh-sequence-gir Install: python3-mako:amd64 (1.1.3+ds1-3, automatic), gobject-introspection:amd64 (1.72.0-1+b1), python3-markdown:amd64 (3.3.7-1, automatic) One can see that gobject-introspection doesn't have the "automatic" tag. # apt purge dh-sequence-gir Note, selecting 'gobject-introspection' instead of 'dh-sequence-gir' but nothing is done, and gobject-introspection is still regarded as manually installed. Note that in both cases, because of a lot of output, I did not see the "Note, selecting 'gobject-introspection' instead of 'dh-sequence-gir'" message (it was unexpected, so I focused on the "will be installed" information). On 2016-10-09 17:16:26 +0100, Eric Curtin wrote: > PR open https://github.com/Debian/apt/pull/24 fixes this Unfortunately it was never merged and became obsolete due to ABI/API break. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
