Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I have a package intalled that is not depended upon by any other
intalled package, or recommended, but is suggested by another installed
package (specifically, libterm-readline-gnu-perl). If I run
aptitude markauto libterm-readline-gnu-perl
it is not proposed for removal. The manual says this should be guided
by Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant, which defaults to false.
However, this does not seem to be the case, because if I run
aptitude -o Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant=false markauto
libterm-readline-gnu-perl
it proposes to remove the package. I checked to make sure that my
~/.aptitude/config (pasted here) does not have any relevant options:
aptitude ;
aptitude::UI ;
aptitude::UI::New-Package-Commands true;
aptitude::UI::Package-Header-Format %N %n #%B %u %o;
aptitude::UI::Package-Status-Format %d;
aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format %c%a%M %p %t %15v %15V;
aptitude::UI::Default-Grouping filter(missing),task,status;
aptitude::UI::Advance-On-Action true;
aptitude::UI::Description-Visible-By-Default true;
aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Download-Bar false;
aptitude::UI::Pause-After-Download false;
aptitude::UI::Prompt-On-Exit true;
aptitude::UI::Exit-On-Last-Close true;
aptitude::UI::Incremental-Search true;
aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Prompts true;
aptitude::UI::Menubar-Autohide true;
aptitude::UI::HelpBar false;
aptitude::UI::Auto-Show-Reasons true;
aptitude::Pkg-Display-Limit ;
aptitude::Auto-Install true;
aptitude::Auto-Fix-Broken true;
aptitude::Delete-Unused true;
aptitude::Purge-Unused true;
aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern ;
aptitude::Auto-Upgrade true;
aptitude::AutoClean-After-Update true;
aptitude::Changelog-URL-Template
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=%s;;
aptitude::Display-Planned-Action true;
aptitude::Forget-New-On-Update false;
aptitude::Forget-New-On-Install false;
aptitude::Warn-Not-Root true;
aptitude::Log /var/log/aptitude;
aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern ;
By the way, typos: the manual incorrectly refers to
Apt::AutoRemove::Suggests-Important and
Apt::AutoRemove::Recommends-Important in a few places (note the
hyphens).
Andrew
-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8 compiled at Jun 9 2012 10:02:58
Compiler: g++ 4.7.0
Compiled against:
apt version 4.12.0
NCurses version 5.9
libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Qt support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
cwidget version: 0.5.16
Apt version: 4.12.0
aptitude linkage:
linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7fffa3dff000)
libapt-pkg.so.4.12 = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
(0x7f1d155bd000)
libncursesw.so.5 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5
(0x7f1d1538d000)
libtinfo.so.5 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5
(0x7f1d15163000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x7f1d14f5e000)
libcwidget.so.3 = /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x7f1d14c5e000)
libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 = /usr/lib/libept.so.1.0.5.4.12
(0x7f1d149bd000)
libxapian.so.22 = /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x7f1d145d8000)
libz.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x7f1d143c1000)
libsqlite3.so.0 = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x7f1d14115000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 = /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0
(0x7f1d13efc000)
libpthread.so.0 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
(0x7f1d13ce)
libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
(0x7f1d139d8000)
libm.so.6 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x7f1d13756000)
libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
(0x7f1d1354)
libc.so.6 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7f1d131b8000)
libutil.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x7f1d12fb5000)
libdl.so.2 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x7f1d12db1000)
libbz2.so.1.0 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0
(0x7f1d12ba)
libuuid.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x7f1d1299b000)
librt.so.1 = /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x7f1d12792000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f1d15f4b000)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii aptitude-common 0.6.8-1
ii libapt-pkg4.120.9.7.2
ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0
