Is there a Debian way to sync apt-get and aptitude data files? We just had a problem where aptitude decided to programs that were installed by apt-get immediately prior. This is on Sarge stable.
Specifically, the steps to reproduce this were: apt-get install flac aptitude Press 'g' and you'd see 2 held back packages (cpio, libssl) and 4 packages to be removed (flac and its dependencies). If you removed flac+deps with aptitude and then reinstalled them with apt-get, aptitude would still want to remove flac. This could not be reproduced on another Sarge stable server, so I suspect the aptitude/apt-get data files got corrupted in some way. Upgrading 'cpio' and 'libssl' packages took care of this particular problem, but that doesn't make a lot of sense, since they're not dependencies or conflicts to flac. (I have searched Google for this, but I find a lot of documentation for aptitude instead. I'm fine with being pointed at documentation if someone written about this somewhere.)
