On 2009-11-20 06:51 +0100, brian m. carlson wrote:
> Okay, here's some more information that I think might be useful. I
> marked packages for upgrade, and libsnmp-base and libsnmp15 are marked
> for upgrade. libsnmp-base depends on gawk. However, libsnmp-base
> conflicts with libsmi2-common, and so the dependency resolver got
> invoked. I chose, using the dependency resolver, not to upgrade either
> package. However, gawk still gets marked as piA; that is,
> to-be-installed and automatically so.
This sounds very much like #556042 to me, which is fixed in aptitude
0.6.1.3. Alas, that version FTBFS on 64-bit archs.
> aptitude should not mark gawk for automatic installation if installation
> of the packages that cause it to be automatically installed is canceled
> using the dependency resolver.
Do you have a package installed (dict, e.g.) that recommends gawk?
Regards,
Sven
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