On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 07:39:11PM +0100, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> was heard to say: > 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.
It could also be that the first-pass resolver is selecting that package, and it doesn't get dropped later because it isn't unused. If so, "-o Aptitude::Auto-Install=false" would probably work around this, at the cost of a lot more explicit dependency resolution. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
