Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.4-4
Severity: normal
Hi!
On an updated lenny box, "aptitude -s purge" fails to show what
would actually be done by "aptitude purge"
When I installed the xorg package:
# aptitude install xorg
some one hundred of other packages were pulled in because of
dependencies and recommendations.
So far so good. But now, if I simulate the purging of xorg:
$ aptitude -s purge xorg
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Initializing package states...
Reading task descriptions...
Building tag database...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xorg{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 45.1kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Would download/install/remove packages.
Where is the remove-unused-packages feature?
Now, let's try it for real:
# aptitude purge xorg
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading extended state information...
Initializing package states...
Reading task descriptions...
Building tag database...
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
binutils bzip2 cpp cpp-4.1 debconf-utils defoma discover1 discover1-data
dpkg-dev fontconfig-config gcc gcc-4.1 libc6-dev libdiscover1 libdrm2
libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libfreetype6 libfs6 libft-perl libgl1-mesa-dri
libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libice6 libmudflap0 libmudflap0-dev
libpng12-0 libsm6 libssp0 libttf2 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxaw7
libxcursor1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6
libxkbfile1 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1
libxt6 libxtrap6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1
linux-kernel-headers make mdetect patch perl perl-doc perl-modules
ttf-dejavu type-handling ucf x11-common xbase-clients xbitmaps
xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-scalable
xfonts-utils xkb-data xresprobe xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd
xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm
xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i810
xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nv
xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-tga
xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng
xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga
xserver-xorg-video-via xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xterm xutils xutils-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xorg{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 118 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 189MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
This is not the same as shown by the above-quoted simulation!
What's wrong?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available)
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