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and subject line Re: Aptitude: "why" gives invalid reasons (e.g. using packages
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has caused the Debian Bug report #531030,
regarding Aptitude: "why" gives invalid reasons (e.g. using packages that are
not installed).
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b1
Severity: minor
Output from aptitude:
root@host:~# aptitude why libass1
i sun-java6-plugin Depends firefox | firefox-2 |
iceweasel | mozilla-firefox | iceape-browser | mozilla-browser |
epiphany-gecko | epiphany-webkit | epiphany-browser | galeon |
midbrowser | xulrunner
p galeon Recommends gnome-control-center
p gnome-control-center Recommends gnome-session
p gnome-session Recommends gnome-panel
p gnome-panel Recommends gnome-applets (>= 2.12.1-1)
p gnome-applets Depends gstreamer0.10-alsa |
gstreamer0.10-audiosink | hurd
p gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad Provides gstreamer0.10-audiosink
p gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad Depends libass1
root@host:~# aptitude why bittorrent
i bittorrent Suggests bittorrent-gui
p bittorrent-gui Depends bittorrent (>= 3.4.2-1)
However: Purging the package, then reinstalling it and after wards
making it as "auto"-installed (or probably just marking the package as
autoinstalled right away) makes aptitude suggest removal of the
package (though this is quite expected). However this makes slightly
more difficult to reproduce. If it is any help; I discovered it by
using gtkorphan to find unused packages and then queried "aptitude why
<package>".
Also, it does not come with an invalid reason for every orphaned package.
~Niels
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Apr 17 2009 21:35:13
Compiler: g++ 4.3.3
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.7
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090404
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f03000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.7 =>
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.7 (0xb7e2c000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7dee000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7de7000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7d23000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7ca8000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b51000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b3c000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b23000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a31000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7a0b000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb79df000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb787f000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb787b000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7876000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f04000)
Terminal: screen
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal
interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.26+b1 High-level library for
managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-5 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090404-1 shared libraries for
terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal
Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-5 The GNU Standard C++
Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.12-2 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
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
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.9+b1 Enables support for
package tags
ii tasksel 2.78 Tool for selecting tasks
for insta
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hello
Thanks for reporting this issue with aptitude.
With regards to "orphaned" packages and the "why" command, the man
page says this:
Explains the reason that a particular package should or cannot be
installed on the system.
This command searches for packages that require or conflict with the
given package. It displays a sequence of dependencies leading to the
target package, along with a note indicating the installed state of
each package in the dependency chain:
…
By default aptitude outputs only the “most installed, strongest,
tightest, shortest” dependency chain.…
You will note that the second paragraph does not mention any
restriction about only using installed packages, although the program
does try to use as many installed packages as possible in it's
response.
"aptitude why" is not a tool to locate orphaned packages.
I am closing this as it is not a bug, rather a feature which enables
investigation of dependency chains regardless of package installation
status.
Regards
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