Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.4-1.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I already asked for this on the debian-users mailinglist and got replies from people having the same issue http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/421736 I have a weird problem where my google foo is failing me (although I guess it has been seen more than once before). Long story short, I have a configuration management software (puppet) that purges selective packages on each run (among others os-prober). It is (by default) using apt for this task. When I execute aptitude interactively on one of those handled servers after that, it always wants to reinstall os-prober. It does not show so in the listing, but it says 'Will use 193 kB of disk space' and shows os-prober in the 'Packages to be installed' block after pressing 'g'. I have to deselect it there manually with '-' or ':' to get rid of it forever. It seems to be related with the Apt::Install-Recommends setting, if I set that to False the behaviour is gone. But I like recommends for now. It is easily reproducible on both Squeeze and Wheezy: # apt-get install os-prober # aptitude (see that there is nothing to do) # apt-get purge os-prober # aptitude (see that it wants to install os-prober) I have not seen an explicit bug for it, but the 816 open bugs on aptitude are somewhat hard to browse. Is this a known issue or works-as-designed? -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.6.4 compiled at Oct 29 2011 20:08:13 Compiler: g++ 4.6.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.10.1 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.9 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.10.1 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff101ff000) libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x00007f8556101000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f8555ed2000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f8555ca9000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f8555aa4000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f855579c000) libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007f855553f000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f8555145000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f8554f2e000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f8554c8d000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.46.1 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.46.1 (0x00007f8554a74000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f8554858000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f8554553000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f85542d1000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f85540bb000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f8553d36000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f8553b33000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f855392f000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f855372a000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f855351a000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f8553311000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f855641f000) Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY not set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-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-pkg4.10] 0.8.15.9 ii libboost-iostreams1.46.1 1.46.1-7 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.1 ii libept1 1.0.5 ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-15 ii libncursesw5 5.9-2 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.9-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.7-2 ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-15 ii libtinfo5 5.9-2 ii libxapian22 1.2.7-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index <none> ii aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> ii sensible-utils 0.0.6 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.05 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
