Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: minor there is a bug in handling package names on command line
apt-get install ale-clone ale-clone-war2 wants to install cogliati package which is not needed home:~# apt-get install -d -s ale-clone ale-clone-war2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: ale-clone-cogliati The following NEW packages will be installed: ale-clone ale-clone-cogliati ale-clone-war2 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 340 not upgraded. Inst ale-clone-war2 (1.15pre16.3-1.1 Debian:testing) [] Inst ale-clone-cogliati (0.11-1 Debian:testing, Debian:2.2/frozen) [] Inst ale-clone (1.15pre16.3-1.1 Debian:testing) Conf ale-clone-cogliati (0.11-1 Debian:testing, Debian:2.2/frozen) Conf ale-clone (1.15pre16.3-1.1 Debian:testing) Conf ale-clone-war2 (1.15pre16.3-1.1 Debian:testing) home:~# but if you swap command line arguments, it will do the right thing! home:~# apt-get install -s ale-clone-war2 ale-clone Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: ale-clone ale-clone-war2 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 340 not upgraded. Inst ale-clone-war2 (1.15pre16.3-1.1 Debian:testing) [] Inst ale-clone (1.15pre16.3-1.1 Debian:testing) Conf ale-clone (1.15pre16.3-1.1 Debian:testing) Conf ale-clone-war2 (1.15pre16.3-1.1 Debian:testing) home:~# -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux home 2.2.20 #1 Sat Nov 17 12:08:35 CET 2001 i586 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.4-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
