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and subject line Re: Bug#660979: aptitude: -r flag ignored
has caused the Debian Bug report #660979,
regarding aptitude: -r flag ignored
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660979: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660979
Debian Bug Tracking System
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.5-1
Severity: normal

Even though I specify the -r flag to aptitude, it does not install
recommended packages.  Following is a sample session, look at the last lines:

# aptitude update; ionice -c3 aptitude -rZ full-upgrade && aptitude clean; date
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates InRelease
Get: 1 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing InRelease [179 kB]
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing InRelease
Ign http://download.sip-communicator.org unstable/ InRelease
Get: 2 http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release.gpg [198 B]
Hit http://download.sip-communicator.org unstable/ Release.gpg
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main amd64 Packages
Get: 3 http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release [32.1 kB]
Ign http://debian.yacy.net ./ InRelease
Hit http://download.sip-communicator.org unstable/ Release
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free amd64 Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib TranslationIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free TranslationIndex
Ign http://debian.yacy.net ./ Release.gpg
Hit http://download.sip-communicator.org unstable/ Packages
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://debian.yacy.net ./ Release
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free TranslationIndex
Ign http://debian.yacy.net ./ Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-en
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-C
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-it
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free Translation-C
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free Translation-en_GB
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free Translation-it
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-C
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-it
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-C
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-it
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-C
Ign http://download.sip-communicator.org unstable/ Translation-en_US
Ign http://download.sip-communicator.org unstable/ Translation-en
Ign http://download.sip-communicator.org unstable/ Translation-C
Ign http://download.sip-communicator.org unstable/ Translation-en_GB
Ign http://download.sip-communicator.org unstable/ Translation-it
Hit http://debian.yacy.net ./ Packages
Ign http://debian.yacy.net ./ Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-it
Ign http://debian.yacy.net ./ Translation-en
Ign http://debian.yacy.net ./ Translation-C
Ign http://debian.yacy.net ./ Translation-en_GB
Ign http://debian.yacy.net ./ Translation-it
Get: 4 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates InRelease [135 kB]
Hit http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/contrib TranslationIndex
Get: 5 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/main TranslationIndex [2154 B]
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/non-free TranslationIndex
Hit http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/main amd64 
Packages/DiffIndex
Get: 6 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/contrib amd64 Packages 
[14 B]
Get: 7 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/non-free amd64 
Packages [14 B]
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/contrib TranslationIndex
Get: 8 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/main TranslationIndex 
[75 B]
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/non-free TranslationIndex
Get: 9 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en [34.3 kB]
Get: 10 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/main Translation-en [3735 kB]
Hit http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/main Translation-it
Get: 11 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en [62.6 kB]
Get: 12 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/contrib 
Translation-en [14 B]
Get: 13 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/main Translation-en 
[12.9 kB]
Get: 14 http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/non-free 
Translation-en [14 B]
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-C
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en_GB
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-it
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-C
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en_GB
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-it
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/contrib Translation-C
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/contrib Translation-en_GB
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/contrib Translation-it
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/non-free Translation-C
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/non-free Translation-en_GB
Ign http://ftp.it.debian.org testing-proposed-updates/non-free Translation-it
Fetched 4193 kB in 24s (173 kB/s)
                            
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fonts-droid{a} <+6201 kB>  hdf5-helpers{a} <+97.3 kB>  
  libcf0{a} <+109 kB>  libhdf5-7{ab} <+3690 kB>  libhdf5-dev{a} <+19.1 MB>  
  libleptonica{a} <+1798 kB>  libnetcdfc++5{a} <+182 kB>  
  libnetcdfc6{a} <+1358 kB>  libnetcdff5{a} <+508 kB>  
  libsemanage-common{a} <+73.7 kB>  libsemanage1{a} <+299 kB>  
  libtesseract3{a} <+4346 kB>  libustr-1.0-1{a} <+319 kB>  
  tesseract-ocr-eng{a} <+60.3 MB>  tesseract-ocr-equ{a} <+2287 kB>  
  tesseract-ocr-osd{a} <+10.6 MB>  
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libboost-program-options1.46.1{u} <-484 kB>  
  libboost-serialization1.46.1{u} <-847 kB>  
  libboost-thread1.46.1{u} <-170 kB>  tesseract-ocr-deu{u} <-2187 kB>  
The following packages will be upgraded:
  alsa-oss <-25.6 kB>  alsa-utils <+36.9 kB>  
  browser-plugin-gnash <-197 kB>  debsums <-106 kB>  dwww <+151 kB>  
  emacsen-common <-51.2 kB>  fonts-arphic-uming  foomatic-db <+155 kB>  
  foomatic-filters <-46.1 kB>  geoip-database <+65.5 kB>  
  ghostscript <-1024 B>  ghostscript-cups <+1024 B>  
  ghostscript-x <-1024 B>  gir1.2-polkit-1.0  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0  
  gnash <-509 kB>  gnash-common <-5244 kB>  gnash-opengl <-45.1 kB>  
  hdf5-tools <-69.6 kB>  help2man  klibc-utils <+11.3 kB>  
  lib32asound2 <+78.8 kB>  lib32z1 <-10.2 kB>  libasound2 <-137 kB>  
  libasound2-plugins <+14.3 kB>  libencode-locale-perl <-13.3 kB>  
  libgmp-dev <+6144 B>  libgmp10  libgmp3-dev  libgmpxx4ldbl  
  libgnome-speech7 <-35.8 kB>  libgs9 <-292 kB>  libgs9-common <-2010 kB>  
  libhdf5-doc <+12.1 MB>  libhdf5-serial-dev <-16.9 MB>  
  libklibc <+2048 B>  libnetcdf6 <-1910 kB>  libp11-kit-dev  
  libp11-kit0 <+1024 B>  libpolkit-agent-1-0 <+1024 B>  
  libpolkit-backend-1-0  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  libpoppler-glib6 <-3072 B>  
  libpoppler13 <-3072 B>  libsqlite3-0 <+7168 B>  
  libsqlite3-dev <+16.4 kB>  libupower-glib1  login <+760 kB>  
  mime-support <+4096 B>  mksh <+1024 B>  mozilla-plugin-gnash <-45.1 kB>  
  netcdf-doc <+1024 B>  octave-communications <-15.4 kB>  
  octave-fixed <-169 kB>  octave-pfstools <+68.6 kB>  octave-sp <+17.4 kB>  
  octave3.2 <-1152 kB>  octave3.2-headers <-2401 kB>  passwd <-75.8 kB>  
  pcmciautils <+23.6 kB>  policykit-1 <+12.3 kB>  poppler-utils <-14.3 kB>  
  python-pycurl <-128 kB>  python-qt4  python-sip <-61.4 kB>  
  stunnel4 <-89.1 kB>  tesseract-ocr <-2551 kB>  
  ttf-arphic-uming <+1024 B>  udisks <+9216 B>  upower <+8192 B>  
  xdg-utils  xserver-xorg-video-dummy  
  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome <-28.7 kB>  yacy <+28.7 kB>  
  zlib-bin <+115 kB>  zlib1g <-14.3 kB>  zlib1g-dev <-16.4 kB>  
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  ntfsprogs  printer-driver-all  
77 packages upgraded, 16 newly installed, 4 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 138 MB of archives. After unpacking 86.9 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libhdf5-serial-1.8.4: Conflicts: libhdf5-1.8 which is a virtual package.
  libhdf5-7: Conflicts: libhdf5-1.8 which is a virtual package.
             Conflicts: libhdf5-1.8.4 which is a virtual package.
             Conflicts: libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 but 1.8.4-patch1-3 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

      Remove the following packages:
1)      libhdf5-serial-1.8.4        
2)      libjhdf5-java               
3)      libjhdf5-jni                
4)      libshogun9                  
5)      libshogunui6                
6)      octave-ann                  
7)      octave-xraylib              
8)      scilab                      
9)      scilab-cli                  
10)     scilab-doc                  
11)     scilab-full-bin             
12)     scilab-minimal-bin          
13)     shogun-octave               



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

      Remove the following packages:                       
1)      dx                                                 
2)      gmt                                                
3)      gmt-coast-low                                      
4)      grace                                              
5)      hdf5-tools                                         
6)      libdx4                                             
7)      libgmt4                                            
8)      libhdf5-serial-dev                                 
9)      libnetcdf6                                         
10)     libvtk5.8                                          
11)     mayavi2                                            
12)     octave-ad                                          
13)     octave-ann                                         
14)     octave-audio                                       
15)     octave-benchmark                                   
16)     octave-bioinfo                                     
17)     octave-combinatorics                               
18)     octave-communications                              
19)     octave-control                                     
20)     octave-data-smoothing                              
21)     octave-econometrics                                
22)     octave-epstk                                       
23)     octave-financial                                   
24)     octave-fixed                                       
25)     octave-fpl                                         
26)     octave-ftp                                         
27)     octave-ga                                          
28)     octave-general                                     
29)     octave-gsl                                         
30)     octave-ident                                       
31)     octave-image                                       
32)     octave-informationtheory                           
33)     octave-integration                                 
34)     octave-io                                          
35)     octave-irsa                                        
36)     octave-linear-algebra                              
37)     octave-mapping                                     
38)     octave-miscellaneous                               
39)     octave-missing-functions                           
40)     octave-multicore                                   
41)     octave-nan                                         
42)     octave-nlwing2                                     
43)     octave-nnet                                        
44)     octave-nurbs                                       
45)     octave-ocs                                         
46)     octave-octcdf                                      
47)     octave-octgpr                                      
48)     octave-odepkg                                      
49)     octave-optim                                       
50)     octave-optiminterp                                 
51)     octave-outliers                                    
52)     octave-parallel                                    
53)     octave-pdb                                         
54)     octave-pfstools                                    
55)     octave-physicalconstants                           
56)     octave-plot                                        
57)     octave-secs1d                                      
58)     octave-secs2d                                      
59)     octave-signal                                      
60)     octave-simp                                        
61)     octave-sockets                                     
62)     octave-sp                                          
63)     octave-specfun                                     
64)     octave-splines                                     
65)     octave-statistics                                  
66)     octave-strings                                     
67)     octave-struct                                      
68)     octave-symband                                     
69)     octave-symbolic                                    
70)     octave-time                                        
71)     octave-tsa                                         
72)     octave-vrml                                        
73)     octave-xraylib                                     
74)     octave-zenity                                      
75)     octave3.2                                          
76)     octave3.2-headers                                  
77)     python-vtk                                         
78)     shogun-octave                                      
79)     tcl-vtk                                            

      Keep the following packages at their current version:
80)     libhdf5-7 [Not Installed]                          
81)     libhdf5-dev [Not Installed]                        
82)     libnetcdfc++5 [Not Installed]                      
83)     libnetcdfc6 [Not Installed]                        
84)     libnetcdff5 [Not Installed]                        

      Leave the following dependencies unresolved:         
85)     dxsamples recommends dx                            


Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

      Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)      hdf5-helpers [Not Installed]                       
2)      hdf5-tools [1.8.4-patch1-3 (now)]                  
3)      libcf0 [Not Installed]                             
4)      libhdf5-7 [Not Installed]                          
5)      libhdf5-dev [Not Installed]                        
6)      libhdf5-serial-dev [1.8.4-patch1-3 (now)]          
7)      libnetcdf6 [1:4.1.1-6 (now)]                       
8)      libnetcdfc++5 [Not Installed]                      
9)      libnetcdfc6 [Not Installed]                        
10)     libnetcdff5 [Not Installed]                        
11)     octave-communications [1.0.10-3 (now)]             
12)     octave-fixed [0.7.10-3 (now)]                      
13)     octave-pfstools [1.8.1-2+b3 (now)]                 
14)     octave-sp [1:2003-10 (now)]                        
15)     octave3.2 [3.2.4-12 (now)]                         
16)     octave3.2-headers [3.2.4-12 (now)]                 



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fonts-droid{a} <+6201 kB>  libleptonica{a} <+1798 kB>  
  libsemanage-common{a} <+73.7 kB>  libsemanage1{a} <+299 kB>  
  libtesseract3{a} <+4346 kB>  libustr-1.0-1{a} <+319 kB>  
  tesseract-ocr-eng{a} <+60.3 MB>  tesseract-ocr-equ{a} <+2287 kB>  
  tesseract-ocr-osd{a} <+10.6 MB>  
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libboost-program-options1.46.1{u} <-484 kB>  
  libboost-serialization1.46.1{u} <-847 kB>  
  libboost-thread1.46.1{u} <-170 kB>  tesseract-ocr-deu{u} <-2187 kB>  
The following packages will be upgraded:
  alsa-oss <-25.6 kB>  alsa-utils <+36.9 kB>  
  browser-plugin-gnash <-197 kB>  debsums <-106 kB>  dwww <+151 kB>  
  emacsen-common <-51.2 kB>  fonts-arphic-uming  foomatic-db <+155 kB>  
  foomatic-filters <-46.1 kB>  geoip-database <+65.5 kB>  
  ghostscript <-1024 B>  ghostscript-cups <+1024 B>  
  ghostscript-x <-1024 B>  gir1.2-polkit-1.0  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0  
  gnash <-509 kB>  gnash-common <-5244 kB>  gnash-opengl <-45.1 kB>  
  help2man  klibc-utils <+11.3 kB>  lib32asound2 <+78.8 kB>  
  lib32z1 <-10.2 kB>  libasound2 <-137 kB>  libasound2-plugins <+14.3 kB>  
  libencode-locale-perl <-13.3 kB>  libgmp-dev <+6144 B>  libgmp10  
  libgmp3-dev  libgmpxx4ldbl  libgnome-speech7 <-35.8 kB>  
  libgs9 <-292 kB>  libgs9-common <-2010 kB>  libhdf5-doc <+12.1 MB>  
  libklibc <+2048 B>  libp11-kit-dev  libp11-kit0 <+1024 B>  
  libpolkit-agent-1-0 <+1024 B>  libpolkit-backend-1-0  
  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  libpoppler-glib6 <-3072 B>  
  libpoppler13 <-3072 B>  libsqlite3-0 <+7168 B>  
  libsqlite3-dev <+16.4 kB>  libupower-glib1  login <+760 kB>  
  mime-support <+4096 B>  mksh <+1024 B>  mozilla-plugin-gnash <-45.1 kB>  
  netcdf-doc <+1024 B>  passwd <-75.8 kB>  pcmciautils <+23.6 kB>  
  policykit-1 <+12.3 kB>  poppler-utils <-14.3 kB>  
  python-pycurl <-128 kB>  python-qt4  python-sip <-61.4 kB>  
  stunnel4 <-89.1 kB>  tesseract-ocr <-2551 kB>  
  ttf-arphic-uming <+1024 B>  udisks <+9216 B>  upower <+8192 B>  
  xdg-utils  xserver-xorg-video-dummy  
  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome <-28.7 kB>  yacy <+28.7 kB>  
  zlib-bin <+115 kB>  zlib1g <-14.3 kB>  zlib1g-dev <-16.4 kB>  
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  ntfsprogs  printer-driver-all  
68 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 4 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 122 MB of archives. After unpacking 84.4 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 


-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: eterm-color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.5 compiled at Feb  9 2012 22:17:23
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

aptitude linkage:
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffc75cb000)
        libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x00007f877305a000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 
(0x00007f8772e2b000)
        libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 
(0x00007f8772c02000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f87729fd000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f87726f5000)
        libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007f8772498000)
        libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f877209b000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f8771e84000)
        libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f8771be0000)
        libboost_iostreams.so.1.48.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.48.0 
(0x00007f87719c7000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 
(0x00007f87717ab000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 
(0x00007f87714a6000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f8771224000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 
(0x00007f877100e000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f8770c86000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f8770a83000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f877087f000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f877067a000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 
(0x00007f877046a000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f8770261000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f877339d000)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.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-iostreams1.48.0  1.48.0-3
ii  libc6                     2.13-26
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.1
ii  libept1                   1.0.5
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.6.2-12
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                4.6.2-12
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-4
ii  libxapian22               1.2.8-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.5-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.6

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  <none>
ii  tasksel  3.08

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On 23 February 2012 18:13, Francesco Potortì <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.6.5-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Even though I specify the -r flag to aptitude, it does not install
> recommended packages.  Following is a sample session, look at the last lines:
>
> # aptitude update; ionice -c3 aptitude -rZ full-upgrade && aptitude clean; 
> date

> The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
>   ntfsprogs  printer-driver-all

These are the packages which make those recommendations:

dth@europa:~$ aptitude search -F%p '?recommends(ntfsprogs)'
udisks
dth@europa:~$ aptitude search -F%p '?recommends(printer-driver-all)'
foomatic-db
foomatic-db-compressed-ppds

In the session you quoted they are being upgraded, not installed.[1]

Aptitude will only install recommended packages when installing a
new package.  From the man page:

 -r, --with-recommends

     Treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new
     packages (this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and
     ~/.aptitude/config).

However, aptitude will also install any packages which are *new*
recommendations of an upgraded package.  That is, if the current
version of foo does not recommend bar, but the new version does,
then bar will be installed as a recommendation.

Please see the section /Immediate dependency resolution/ in
aptitude-doc-en for a more detailed explanation.


Regards


[1] except foomatic-db-compressed-ppds which is not installed.


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