Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1
Severity: normal
aptitude does not honor Purge-Unused set to true when it
automatically removes packages because of unmet dependencies:
# aptitude purge jackd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
jack-tools jamin meterbridge
The following packages will be REMOVED:
jackd{p} [0.109.2-5] <-422kB>
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 422kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
jack-tools: Depends: jackd (>= 0.94.0) but it is not installable
meterbridge: Depends: jackd but it is not installable
jamin: Depends: jackd (>= 0.50.0) but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
jack-tools
jamin
meterbridge
Score is 257
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
The following packages will be REMOVED:
jack-tools{a} [0.0.2-5] <-246kB> jackd{p} [0.109.2-5] <-422kB>
jamin{a} [0.95.0-4+b1] <-983kB> liblo0ldbl{pu} [0.23-2.2] <-111kB>
meterbridge{a} [0.9.2-6] <-692kB>
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 2454kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 388493 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing jack-tools ...
Removing meterbridge ...
Removing jamin ...
[..]
The missing 'p' already indicates that aptitude is not purging the
packages removed because of the jackd dependencies. A check with
dpkg verifies this:
# dpkg -l jack-tools jamin meterbridge
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn jack-tools <none> (no description available)
rc jamin 0.95.0-4+b1 Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack
rc meterbridge 0.9.2-6 A collection of Audio meters for the JACK au
(I guess jack-tools has no config files so there's no difference
between remove and purge.)
My aptitude configuration:
aptitude "";
aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern "";
aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern "";
aptitude::Purge-Unused "true";
aptitude::UI "";
aptitude::UI::Pause-After-Download "true";
aptitude::UI::Prompt-On-Exit "false";
aptitude::CmdLine "";
aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Versions "true";
aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Size-Changes "true";
aptitude::CmdLine::Always-Prompt "true";
Regards
Uwe
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Dec 5 2008 02:43:34
Compiler: g++ 4.3.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20081213
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f10000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0xb7e2e000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7df0000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7de9000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7d25000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7c64000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b0e000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7af9000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7ae0000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb79f1000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb79cb000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb79be000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7863000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb785f000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb785a000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f11000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (850, 'stable'), (750, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [apti 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.8.1 Enables support for package tags
pn tasksel <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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