Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b2 Severity: normal The following console output demonstrates the problem.
$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages will be upgraded: cups-pdf libhtml-parser-perl libknotificationitem-1-1 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 190kB of archives. After unpacking 73.7kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] w cups-pdf Unable to find a reason to install cups-pdf. [...] Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] w libhtml-parser-perl Unable to find a reason to install libhtml-parser-perl. [...] Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] w libknotificationitem-1-1 Unable to find a reason to install libknotificationitem-1-1. [...] Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. $ aptitude why cups-pdf i cups-pdf PreDepends cups (>= 1.1.15) i A cups Suggests cups-pdf $ aptitude why libhtml-parser-perl i smokeping Depends libwww-perl i A libwww-perl Depends libhtml-parser-perl $ aptitude why libknotificationitem-1-1 i kshisen Depends kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.3.0) i A kdebase-runtime Depends libknotificationitem-1-1 (>= 4:4.3.1) -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Aug 3 2009 17:14:11 Compiler: g++ 4.3.3 Compiled against: apt version 4.8.0 NCurses version 5.7 libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 Ept support enabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090803 cwidget version: 0.5.13 Apt version: 4.8.1 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f36000) libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 (0xb7e57000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e13000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7e0c000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7d49000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7cce000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b7e000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b69000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b50000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a5d000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7a37000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7a0c000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb78ad000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb78a9000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb78a4000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f37000) Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (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/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.23.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.13-1 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.29 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.16-3 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-do 0.4.11.11-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii libparse-debianchangelog-per 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii debtags 1.7.9+b2 Enables support for package tags ii tasksel 2.80 Tool for selecting tasks for insta -- 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