This might be related to :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyRecommendsHandling
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg0.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-November/024707.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-November/024711.html
Nope, it's not. The problem here is that Aptitude is not removing
unneeded depends automatically.
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Bugs, which is the bug
NOTE: Looks like its 01autoremove, not 01ubuntu.
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I'm confirming this behaviour on my computer. Is anybody dealing with
this bug?
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It doesn't seem like it. For a workaround, you can always edit the file.
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Yes, I know. After a bit more thought I suspect its better to leave
this bug report open - it does seem to be a bug more than a feature.
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Whose idea was the 01ubuntu directives? This doesn't really make sense,
as removing metapackages cleanly is the reason I use aptitude!
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Hmm. How does one close a bug report?
Craig
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This turned out not to be an aptitude fault after all. As I've suffered
this condition since the first few days of the gutsy development I
started to wonder if 'something' had been left behind causing this
strange behaviour. After some snooping the following was found:
