Bug#556042: aptitude: safe-upgrade installs new packages without upgrading anything

2009-11-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
Could you verify that you see this behavior in the squeeze version of aptitude as well? Also, I suspect it would be useful if you ran aptitude with --log-level=info --log-file=aptitude.log' and sent the log file to this bug report. Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#556042: aptitude: safe-upgrade installs new packages without upgrading anything

2009-11-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-11-17 17:22 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: Could you verify that you see this behavior in the squeeze version of aptitude as well? Does not seem to happen with it, but safe-upgrade in aptitude 0.4.11.x is broken differently by bug #466228. I tried a locally built version of aptitude

Bug#556042: aptitude: safe-upgrade installs new packages without upgrading anything

2009-11-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
It appears that the problem is that aptitude is trying to fix soft dependencies (recommendations) that were broken to start with. I think this can be avoided with a fairly simple check. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#556042: aptitude: safe-upgrade installs new packages without upgrading anything

2009-11-13 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.0.1-1 Severity: normal The following does not seem right to me: , | % aptitude -s -V -D safe-upgrade | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Reading extended state information... Done |