Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.10-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
The "markauto" and "unmarkauto" commands work in reverse as specified in the manual, and in reverse as common sense would say they should. I have a manually installed package, libdirectfb-1.0-0: $ aptitude show libdirectfb-1.0-0 | egrep '^(Automatically|State)' State: installed Automatically installed: no I want this package to be marked as "automatically installed". So I do a "markauto": $ sudo aptitude markauto libdirectfb-1.0-0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done OK. It didn't tell me it actually carried out any useful work (even though it emitted a lot of noise), so let's assume it worked. Now I query the package state again: $ aptitude show libdirectfb-1.0-0 | egrep '^(Automatically|State)' State: installed Automatically installed: no Wow. Humm. Maybe it didn't work after all. Let's try the other command: $ sudo aptitude unmarkauto libdirectfb-1.0-0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done Ok, it still doesn't say it did anything (Boy, it is really noisy.) Let's check the state anyway: $ aptitude show libdirectfb-1.0-0 | egrep '^(Automatically|State)' State: installed Automatically installed: yes WOW! Now that's broken! Let's try to put it in manual mode again, with the "markauto" command: $ sudo aptitude markauto libdirectfb-1.0-0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done OK, I got more useless noise, now does it continue to fail? $ aptitude show libdirectfb-1.0-0 | egrep '^(Automatically|State)' State: installed Automatically installed: no Why, yes, it failed to do the thing I told it to do, but it correctly did exactly the opposite! Guys. Come on. Does anyone actually _test_ this stuff? I'm guessing this bug is a "duplicate" of #330131 and #372184. It is _still_ broken in 0.4.10 though. I'm marking the bug as critical because of the reports in those other bugs. Thanks for your work on aptitude. It is awesome. I only wish that devs would put more attention to simple things such as this one. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6 0.7.9 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget1 0.5.6.1-3 high-level terminal interface libr ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080119-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3-20080116-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
