Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.0.1-1 Severity: normal On my system, I have mawk and original-awk installed, whereas gawk is not. The only package that depends on any awk whatsoever is base-files, which has a pre-dependency. This pre-dependency is satisfied by both mawk and original-awk. However, aptitude seems to want to install gawk to satisfy this dependency and insists on trying to do so every time I mark packages for upgrade.
Obviously, since the sole dependency (including recommends and suggests) is satisfied, there is no reason for aptitude to attempt to install gawk. This is irksome because I really do not want gawk installed. I think aptitude should not try to install gawk if the dependency is already satisfied (and will remain so). -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.6.0.1 compiled at Oct 25 2009 23:00:16 Compiler: g++ 4.3.4 Compiled against: apt version 4.8.1 NCurses version 5.7 libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090803 cwidget version: 0.5.14 Apt version: 4.8.1 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff9d1ff000) libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 (0x00007f7347ecd000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f7347c7c000) liblog4cxx.so.10 => /usr/lib/liblog4cxx.so.10 (0x00007f7347888000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7347683000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f73473b2000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007f7347138000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007f7346de2000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f7346bcb000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f734693d000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0 (0x00007f7346732000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f7346516000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f7346205000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7345f83000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f7345d6d000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7345a19000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f7345816000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f7345612000) libaprutil-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0 (0x00007f73453ee000) libapr-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (0x00007f73451b9000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f7344fb5000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f7344dac000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007f7344b75000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f7344964000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f73481ba000) libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f734473c000) Terminal: gnome-256color $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (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/dash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.24 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libboost-iostreams1.40 1.40.0-4 Boost.Iostreams Library ii libc6 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.14-1 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.29 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-2 GCC support library ii liblog4cxx10 0.10.0-1 A logging library for C++ 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 libsqlite3-0 3.6.20-1 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-2 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 apt-xapian-index 0.22 maintenance tools for a Xapian ind ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.6.0.1-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii sensible-utils 0.0.1 Utilities for sensible alternative Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) pn tasksel <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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