Package: apt Version: 0.7.21 Followup-For: Bug #517202
Maybe I understand how the problem emerge. Here is another example: I try to remove a package, and apt-get installs the NEW package libbluetooth3 and suggest removing it... # apt-get --purge remove openbios-ppc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libbluetooth3 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: bochsbios libbluetooth3 libpulse0 Suggested packages: pulseaudio The following packages will be REMOVED: openbios-ppc* qemu* The following NEW packages will be installed: libbluetooth3 The following packages will be upgraded: bochsbios libpulse0 2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1161 not upgraded. Need to get 552kB of archives. After this operation, 44.8MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. Removing openbios-ppc, apt also has to remove qemu. But qemu is not up-to-date, so apt tries to update qemu. This operation requires updating bochsbios and libpulse0, and installing libbluetooth3. But also the last version of qemu depend on openbios-ppc, it must be removed... Nevertheless apt keeps on updating and installing the related but unneeded packages. One more question arises... If I try to update qemu, apt updates and installs packages as above, and suggest removing libbluetooth2! # apt-get install qemu Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libbluetooth2 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: bochsbios libbluetooth3 libpulse0 Suggested packages: pulseaudio samba The following NEW packages will be installed: libbluetooth3 The following packages will be upgraded: bochsbios libpulse0 qemu 3 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1162 not upgraded. This means that BOTH libbluetooth2 and the newly installed libbluetooth3 should be auto-removed after removing openbios-ppc, isn't it? Version of related installed packages are: ii bochsbios 2.3.7-1 BIOS for the Bochs emulator ii libpulse0 0.9.14-2 PulseAudio client libraries ii openbios-ppc 1.0-2 PowerPC Open Firmware ii qemu 0.10.2-2 fast processor emulator Best regards, Marco -- http://bodrato.it/ -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "i386"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Install-Recommends "1"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Acquire ""; APT::Acquire::Translation "environment"; APT::NeverAutoRemove ""; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::userstatus "status.user"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; Dir::Log "var/log/apt"; Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Tools ""; DPkg::Tools::Options ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2"; DPkg::Post-Invoke ""; DPkg::Post-Invoke:::: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi"; DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/localepurge ] && [ $(ps w -p $PPID | grep -c remove) != 1 ]; then /usr/sbin/localepurge; else exit 0; fi"; -- /etc/apt/preferences -- -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- #sid #deb http://debian.rutgers.edu/ unstable main deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ unstable main #deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ unstable main #sid non free deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ unstable contrib non-free #videolan ##deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main #security deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib #vari #blackdown deb ftp://ftp.easynet.be/blackdown/debian/ sid main non-free #dbxml #deb http://www.lesdeveloppementsdurables.org/debian/ testing dbxml #marillat deb http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de/debian-multimedia sid main #deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main #kismet ##deb http://unbolted.llarian.net/debian/ kismet-devel/ #cinelerra ##deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/sid/ ./ deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ testing main ###deb-src http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ testing main #deb http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian/ testing main ##deb-src http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian/ testing main #deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main #deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-tm290 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.9-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-4 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1+b1 terminal-based package manager ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in pn python-apt <none> (no description available) ii synaptic 0.62.7 Graphical package manager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
