Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.4-1.2
Severity: normal

The dependency resolution is suboptimal, even buggy. For instance:

# aptitude install evolution
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgnome-desktop-3-2{a} 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  evolution gnome-desktop3-data 
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  bogofilter spamassassin 
2 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
Need to get 1955 kB of archives. After unpacking 20.5 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libgnome-desktop-3-0: Depends: gnome-desktop3-data (= 3.0.2-2) but 3.2.1-3 is 
to be installed.
  evolution-plugins: Depends: evolution (= 3.0.3-3) but 3.0.3-3+b1 is to be 
installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

      Remove the following packages:                                            
1)      cheese                                                                  
2)      eog                                                                     
3)      evolution                                                               
4)      evolution-plugins                                                       
5)      gnome-accessibility                                                     
6)      gnome-applets                                                           
7)      gnome-control-center                                                    
8)      gnome-core                                                              
9)      gnome-panel                                                             
10)     gnome-power-manager                                                     
11)     gnome-screensaver                                                       
12)     gnome-session                                                           
13)     gnome-session-fallback                                                  
14)     gnome-settings-daemon                                                   
15)     gnome-shell                                                             
16)     gnome-sushi                                                             
17)     libevolution                                                            
18)     libgnome-desktop-3-0                                                    
19)     nautilus                                                                
20)     nautilus-sendto                                                         

      Leave the following dependencies unresolved:                              
21)     alacarte recommends gnome-panel                                         
22)     evolution-common recommends evolution                                   
23)     gdm3 recommends gnome-power-manager (>= 2.28)                           
24)     gdm3 recommends gnome-settings-daemon                                   
25)     gnome-control-center recommends gnome-session                           
26)     gnome-control-center-data recommends gnome-control-center (>= 1:3.0.2-3)
27)     gnome-session recommends gnome-power-manager                            
28)     gnome-session-fallback recommends gnome-power-manager                   
29)     gnome-system-tools recommends gnome-control-center (>= 1:2.10.1-1)      
30)     metacity recommends gnome-session | x-session-manager                   
31)     mousetweaks recommends gnome-control-center                             
32)     evolution recommends evolution-plugins                                  
33)     gnome-panel-data recommends gnome-panel                                 
34)     nautilus-data recommends nautilus                                       
35)     totem-plugins recommends gnome-settings-daemon                          
36)     gnome-panel recommends gnome-session (>= 2.26)                          
37)     gnome-panel recommends gnome-control-center                             

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

      Remove the following packages:                                            
1)      libgnome-desktop-3-0                                                    

      Upgrade the following packages:                                           
2)      cheese [3.2.2-1 (now, testing) -> 3.2.2-1+b1 (unstable)]                
3)      eog [3.2.2-2 (now, testing) -> 3.2.2-2+b1 (unstable)]                   
4)      evolution-plugins [3.0.3-3 (now, testing) -> 3.0.3-3+b1 (unstable)]     
5)      gnome-control-center [1:3.0.2-3 (now, testing) -> 1:3.0.2-3+b1 (unstable
6)      gnome-panel [3.2.1-1 (now) -> 3.2.1-1+b1 (unstable)]                    
7)      gnome-screensaver [3.0.1-3 (now, testing) -> 3.2.0-2+b1 (unstable)]     
8)      gnome-settings-daemon [3.0.3-3 (now, testing) -> 3.0.3-3+b1 (unstable)] 
9)      gnome-shell [3.0.2-8 (now, testing) -> 3.0.2-8+b1 (unstable)]           
10)     libevolution [3.0.3-3 (now, testing) -> 3.0.3-3+b1 (unstable)]          
11)     nautilus [3.2.1-2 (now) -> 3.2.1-2+b1 (unstable)]                       

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 

The first solution is really bad as it removes various useful packages,
including evolution, that was asked to be installed on the command line
(I regard this one as a bug).

The second solution is OK, as only a library package is removed, and
such a package with no dependencies on it is useless.

-- 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 =>  (0x00007fffb1d2a000)
        libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x00007fced8cba000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 
(0x00007fced8a8b000)
        libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 
(0x00007fced8862000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fced865d000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fced8355000)
        libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007fced80f8000)
        libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fced7cfe000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fced7ae7000)
        libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fced7843000)
        libboost_iostreams.so.1.46.1 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.46.1 
(0x00007fced762a000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 
(0x00007fced740e000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 
(0x00007fced7109000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fced6e87000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 
(0x00007fced6c71000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fced68ec000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fced66e9000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fced64e5000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fced62e0000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 
(0x00007fced60d0000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fced5ec7000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fced8ff0000)
Terminal: xterm-debian
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:

aptitude linkage:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, 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+b1
ii  libc6                     2.13-21
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.1
ii  libept1                   1.0.5
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.6.2-5
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-4
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.9-1.1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.9-2
ii  libstdc++6                4.6.2-5
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-4
ii  libxapian22               1.2.7-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.44
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.4-1.2
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.6

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  <none>
ii  tasksel  3.07

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