Bug#787663: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#787663: aptitude forgets/clears manually set auto-installed-flags in several situations

Hi Christoph, > I know how it works, but that system alone is a bit limited, as it > works only for those situations where there is actually a dependency > expressed between the packages in question,... which in turn is however > by far not every case where I install a package because of another

Bug#787663: aptitude forgets/clears manually set auto-installed-flags in several situations

2016-02-29 22:28 GMT+00:00 Christoph Anton Mitterer : > On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 18:52 +, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> Because marking a package auto means to tell aptitude "remove it from >> my system as soon as it's not needed". >> >>

Bug#787663: aptitude forgets/clears manually set auto-installed-flags in several situations

On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 18:52 +, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > Because marking a package auto means to tell aptitude "remove it from > my > system as soon as it's not needed". > >   http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s02s06.html > >   It works like this: when you install a

Bug#787663: aptitude forgets/clears manually set auto-installed-flags in several situations

Control: tags -1 + wontfix Control: close -1 2016-02-29 05:15 Christoph Anton Mitterer: On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 17:29 +, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: On the other hand, if I understood correctly, if nothing depends on krb5-k5tls on your system, you shouldn't have it marked as

Bug#787663: aptitude forgets/clears manually set auto-installed-flags in several situations

On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 17:29 +, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > I just tried to reproduce this with upgrading "less" (some packages > recommend it) and "install-info" (some packages depend on it) in > curses, > with A flag set, but after proceeding to install but selecting "n" in >

Bug#787663: aptitude forgets/clears manually set auto-installed-flags in several situations

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible Hi, 2016-02-25 03:15 Christoph Anton Mitterer: Control: reopen -1 Hey. I just tried that with: # aptitude --version aptitude 0.7.6 Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160220 Compiled against:   apt version 5.0.0   NCurses version 6.0   libsigc++ version: 2.6.2  

Bug#787663: aptitude forgets/clears manually set auto-installed-flags in several situations

Control: reopen -1 Hey. I just tried that with: # aptitude --version aptitude 0.7.6 Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160220 Compiled against:   apt version 5.0.0   NCurses version 6.0   libsigc++ version: 2.6.2   Gtk+ support disabled.   Qt support disabled. Current library versions:   NCurses version:

Bug#787663: aptitude forgets/clears manually set auto-installed-flags in several situations

Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 Severity: normal Hi. There have been several bugs present over the years in which aptitude (and perhaps also apt?? I only checked the following for aptitude, it may easily apply to apt as well) forgot / cleaned manually set auto-installed-flags on