Bug#610845: aptitude: install removes a package instead of upgrading it

Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.3-3.2 Hi, I'm running into an issue with the aptitude interactive resolver where its first response to aptitude install dnsutils, when an upgrade is available, involves removing dnsutils, and only the second option proposes to upgrade it and other packages

Bug#610845: aptitude: install removes a package instead of upgrading it

I forgot to mention two things: - apt-get handles this fine (it previously didn't, which is why we switched from apt-get to aptitude a few years ago...) - This seems quite similar to bugs #341963 and #359171. However, both of those are fairly old (aptitude 0.4.0 from '05 and 0.4.1 from '06,