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 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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