retitle 613775 MarkInstall calls with FromUser set to false reassign 613775 aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 thanks
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:05, Aaron M. Ucko <u...@debian.org> wrote:
> First off, I'd like to thank you (David) for responding promptly and
> Sven for providing a user perspective while I was asleep.
>
> David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com> writes:
>> In that case it would be an aptitude bug as it would call MarkInstall
>> with FromUser == true for requests which are not directly from the user
>> and should therefore not be marked as manual.
> [...]
>> So could you please describe more detailed why do you consider it a bug
>> in APT rather than in aptitude? Exact commands you use for example?
>
> Thanks for the explanation. As my initial comment meant to indicate, I
> *don't* necessarily consider the bug to be in APT rather than aptitude,
> and merely assigned it to the former because it occurs only with newer
> versions thereof. If you honestly feel that the change was fully
> correct and merely revealed a previously latent bug in aptitude, please
> feel free to reassign this report. Sorry if that was unclear.
No problem. I haven't reassigned the bug instantly as i thought we
should discuss it before. So after that discussion i would strongly
recommend to switch aptitude in the future to use FromUser as needed.
In the meantime i have commited a quickfix which more or less restores
the old behavior in libapt-pkg - the changelog says:
+ * apt-pkg/depcache.cc:
+ - party revert fix in 0.8.11.2 which marked all packages as manual
+ installed if the FromUser bit is set in the MarkInstall call.
+ The default for this bit is true and aptitude depends on the old
+ behavior so the package is only marked as manual if its not marked
+ ("old" behavior) or if automatic installation is enabled - which
+ aptitude disables always (see also #613775)
The complete patch is attached (one line as always) and i guess Michael
will merge/upload it in a short while.
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
P.S.: I hope aptitude gets revived - it has A LOT of users who will miss it!
"There's life in the old dog yet." (through, the german saying sounds much
better in my ears: "Totgesagte leben länger")
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