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)

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