Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.10-1+b2
Followup-For: Bug #430816
After an automatic upgrade of gpm, gpm failed to work. I reverted to
the previous version using
dpkg -i {gpm,libgmpg1}_1.19.6-25_i386.deb
The next time an automatic upgrade came along, it wanted to install
the faulty gpm stuff again. Before doing the upgrade, I ran
aptitude forbid-version {gpm,libgpmg1}=1.20.3~pre3-1
and unticked the {gpm,libgpmg1} packages on the list of packages to
install so that they would not be installed. That was fine but, at
the end of install, a check is performed and it said there were 2
more packages to install. These were the unwanted gpm packages. My
impression was that forbid-version would prevent a package from
being installed yet that is not happening. Every future automatic
upgrade will probably be trying to install gpm and a visual inspection
will be needed to see if it's the faulty one :-( or a corrected one
:-)
-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: linux
$DISPLAY not set.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.7 0.7.11 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget1 0.5.6.1-3 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080202-1 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080203-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3-20080202-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.10-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available)
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