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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.9-1
Severity: important
Hi,
I hit the bug two days ago, trying to install mlocate from
experimental (that conflict with the findutils that were in unstable).
I used the ncurse interface and aptitude does not warn me about the
removal of an essential package (not more than any other package).
For me, I solved the problem with installing findutils from
experimental (I wanted to test the 'locate' transition), but I
think that aptitude has a bad behavior here.
See the different scenarii:
*******************************
root@atsina danjean# apt-get remove findutils
[...]
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
?]
*******************************
root@atsina danjean# apt-get install mlocate/experimental
[...]
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
?]
*******************************
root@atsina danjean# aptitude remove findutils
[...]
WARNING: Performing this action will probably cause your system to
break!
Do NOT continue unless you know EXACTLY what you are doing!
To continue, type the phrase "I am aware that this is a very bad idea":
*******************************
root@atsina danjean# aptitude install mlocate/experimental
[...]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mlocate
The following packages will be REMOVED:
findutils
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 696 not
upgraded.
Need to get 46.5kB of archives. After unpacking 1278kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
*******************************
I really think that the last case is not handled correctly and that a
big warning should be displayed (and same thing for the ncurse interface).
Best regards,
Vincent
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.9 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget0 0.5.5-1 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-3 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20071103-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-fr [aptitude-doc 0.4.9-1 French manual for aptitude, a term
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.4.11.10-1
Hi Vincent,
Vincent Danjean wrote on Thu, 22 Nov 2007:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.4.9-1
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> I hit the bug two days ago, trying to install mlocate from
> experimental (that conflict with the findutils that were in unstable).
> I used the ncurse interface and aptitude does not warn me about the
> removal of an essential package (not more than any other package).
I remember that aptitude's curses interface warned me quite
promimently when I wanted to remove the package diff due to to the
diff → diffutils transition prematurely when upgrading from Lenny
(aptitude version 0.4.11.11-1~lenny2) to Squeeze (aptitude version
0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1). I had to upgrade diff and install diffutils
before I could remove diff without warning, so this bug is no more
present in at least Squeeze.
I checked the changelog and found the following item in the changelog
entry of version 0.4.11.10-1:
- Never remove an essential package from the curses UI without
asking the user first.
So the bug was already fixed in Lenny. I hence close this bug report
as fixed in version 0.4.11.10-1.
Regards, Axel
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