Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.0.1-1
Severity: minor

Hi,

I just stumbled upon the following situation where aptitude asks for 
confirmation to do nothing at all.

# aptitude install readahead                                                    
                                    
Reading package lists... Done                                                   
                                              
Building dependency tree                                                        
                                              
Reading state information... Done                                               
                                              
Initializing package states... Done                                             
                                              
Writing extended state information... Done                                      
                                              
The following packages are BROKEN:                                              
                                                
readahead-fedora                                                                
                                            
The following NEW packages will be installed:                                   
                                                
libaudit0{a} readahead
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/120kB of archives. After unpacking 655kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  readahead-fedora: Conflicts: readahead but 2:1.5.4-2 is to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
readahead [Not Installed]

Tier: Safe actions (10000)

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
<nothing>
#

In case you need more details:

# apt-cache show readahead{,-fedora} | grep -E 'Package|Depends|Conflicts|
Replaces|^$'
Package: readahead
Depends: readahead-fedora

Package: readahead-fedora
Replaces: readahead
Depends: e2fslibs (>= 1.41.0), libaudit0, libblkid1 (>= 2.16), libc6 (>= 
2.3.3), dpkg (>= 1.15.0)
Conflicts: readahead

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net



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