Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.1.3-3
Severity: normal

The package 'libx264-78' is installed on my (Sid) system:

~# aptitude why libx264-78
i   gnome-mplayer Depends mplayer (>= 1.0~) | mplayer-nogui (>= 1.0~)
i A mplayer       Depends libx264-78 (>= 1:0.svn20091101)

Aptitude shows it in the 'Obsolete and Locally Created Packages'
section.  When I try to upgrade the system, aptitude (initially)
suggests that I keep this package, but whenever I accept the
suggestion, the package's status of 'automatically installed' goes
away, and it becomes marked as manually installed.  This doesn't seem to happen
to most packages - does this have anything to do with the fact that it's
'obsolete' (i.e., currently not available in the archives)?

-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.1.3 compiled at Nov 20 2009 15:39:26
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: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.8.0
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb78bd000)
        /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so (0xb78b9000)
        libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 
(0xb77eb000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb77a6000)
        liblog4cxx.so.10 => /usr/lib/liblog4cxx.so.10 (0xb75fd000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb75f7000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7534000)
        libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb74c1000)
        libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb736f000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb735a000)
        libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb72d9000)
        libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0 
(0xb72ce000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb72b5000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb71c4000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb719d000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7180000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7039000)
        libv4l1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libv4l1.so.0 (0xb7034000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb7030000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb702b000)
        libaprutil-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0 (0xb700b000)
        libapr-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (0xb6fde000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6fda000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6fd1000)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb6f9f000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6f8e000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb78be000)
        libv4l2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libv4l2.so.0 (0xb6f84000)
        libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb6f5e000)
        libv4lconvert.so.0 => /usr/lib/libv4lconvert.so.0 (0xb6ef3000)
Terminal: xterm
$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')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-lizzie
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. 0.7.25            Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libboost-iostreams1.40 1.40.0-4          Boost.Iostreams Library
ii  libc6                  2.10.2-2          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcwidget3            0.5.16-2          high-level terminal interface libr
ii  libept0                0.5.30            High-level library for managing De
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.2-5         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           3.6.21-2          SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.2-5           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libxapian15            1.0.17-1          Search engine library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  apt-xapian-index              <none>     (no description available)
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.6.1.3-3  English manual for aptitude, a ter
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none>     (no description available)
ii  sensible-utils                0.0.2      Utilities for sensible alternative

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  tasksel                       <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information



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