Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.5-1
Sometimes aptitude refuses to keep packages that have been
marked as automatically installed. Steps to reproduce:
install stretch in a container and run it
lxc-create -t debian -n sample -- -r stretch
lxc-start -n sample -F
in the container
export TERM=xterm
apt update
apt install aptitude
aptitude
in aptitude
press '[' on "Installed Package"
press 'M' to mark all installed packages as automatically
installed
search for "openssh-client". Its marked for removal,
together with openssh-server and openssh-sftp-server
press '+' (or '=') on openssh-client to mark it as manually
installed. Aptitude complains about a conflict.
hit 'e' to examine. aptitude suggests to keep a set of other
packages, all marked as automatically installed. Why
doesn't it by default without asking?
Problem is, that aptitude doesn't examine the dependencies of
openssh-client to keep the appropriate packages, as Jessie's
aptitude did. openssh-client is an easy case, because there is
only one solution to resolve the conflict (that actually doesn't
exist), but on complex dependency trees this can get pretty
annoying.
Regards
Harri
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