Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.15.9-2 Severity: important
I just tried to get aptitude to mark libavcodeccvs as manually installed, stopping it from being removed due to lack of use: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ferriera$ aptitude unmarkauto libavcodeccvs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: libavcodeccvs The following packages have been kept back: rt2500-source 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 4342kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 94343 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libavcodeccvs ... Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ferriera$ As you can see, aptitude seems to have removed it anyway! I have marked this bug as important since this might have caused a problem if I hadn't had access to the original .deb. I won't object if you downgrade to normal, though. Thanks for your work on aptitude. Regards, Andrew Ferrier. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6 0.5.28.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-1.2-5c102 1.2.5-4 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
