Hi Sven, 2016-02-27 20:46 GMT+00:00 Sven Joachim <[email protected]>: >> >>>>>>Also, if you hold and then unhold wine and iceweasel-l10n-de, it keeps >>>>>>trying to remove them as unused, or did it only happen the first time >>>>>>(before marking them as hold)? >>>>> >>>>>It keeps trying to remove them. >>>> >>>>I tried to reproduce it with my versions installed (44) and no luck. >> >> Maybe that's because those are the candidate versions, whereas mine are not? > > Seems that's indeed the reason. I bisected the problem, and found > commit 377f72b53c ("Reinstate auto-installed flag when marking packages > to keep in apt cache (Closes: #508428)") to be the culprit.
Thanks for your debugging session. I don't understand very well the relationship though -- in the original message, when you paste the "versions", they are not marked as auto-installed (you say "None of these three packages is marked as manually installed:", but the information shows the contrary, so I assume that you meant that). Also, in the first "safe-upgrade", you don't mention if the packages were marked as auto previously (either on purpose, or wrongly by aptitude). >>> BTW, do you have many packages set on hold, or only these ones or very >>> few? >> >> Apart of the mentioned packages, only one. > > That package has a reverse dependency which is also held back, and I can > see that it has been marked as auto-installed as well, which is not > surprising (anymore). The commit above might be doing the wrong thing, but it doesn't have much to do with holds but with marking the packages to "keep", for example when one selects "Keep packages at current version" in the interactive resolver. It doesn't mark them unconditionally as automatic either, it tries to force the Automatic parameter that was decided elsewhere (presumably, determined to be the previous state before the current set of decisions / pending actions was taken). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
