On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:25:34PM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi, now that I've closed an aptitude non-bug today, may I submit a new > one?
Sure, but only if it's a non-bug. :-) > Today, when I call aptitude dist-upgrade on sid, aptitude seems to > install new packages because some upgraded package depends on them: > > *************************** > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Building tag database... Done > The following packages are BROKEN: > aptitude > The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: > alien at bc dbus dbus-x11 fontconfig groff-base hicolor-icon-theme > libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libaudio2 > libbeecrypt6 libcupsys2 libdatrie0 libdbus-1-3 libgl1-mesa-glide3 > libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libglide3 > libglu1-mesa libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common liblcms1 > liblockfile1 libmng1 libmysqlclient15off > libneon25 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpci2 libpq5 libqt3-mt > libqt4-core libqt4-gui libqt4-qt3support > libqt4-sql librpm4 libsqlite0 libsqlite3-0 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 > libxcursor1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 > libxinerama1 libxml2 libxrandr2 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 lprng lsb lsb-core > lsb-cxx lsb-desktop lsb-graphics > lsb-qt4 lsb-release mailx man-db mysql-common ncurses-term pax pciutils > procps qt4-qtconfig rpm rsync > x-ttcidfont-conf What do you get here if you pass -D at the command line? I bet you get just the same thing back... If you look at your aptitude log, does aptitude say it wanted to install all this stuff on a previous run? Also, are there any currently broken packages? (e.g., run "apt-cache unmet | grep Depends") If you jump into the visual UI (run without any argument) or run "aptitude install", do you still see all that stuff being installed? Usually output like this means that a previous install aborted (e.g., because of package installation errors) and aptitude is trying to complete it. Certainly there's something installed on your system that requires those packages, or aptitude would have dropped them as being unused. Although that's a whole lot of packages to have in the queue. Daniel
