[Aptitude-devel] Bug#695725: Bug#695725: why says Recommends when in fact Depends

[Axel Beckert]

Hi jidanni,

jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.6.8.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> # aptitude why libxapian22
> i   python-xapian Depends libxapian22 (>= 1.2.12)
> # aptitude why python-xapian
> i   aptitude         Recommends apt-xapian-index <-- NOT THE TRUTH

No, that's true:

$ apt-cache show aptitude | fgrep Recommends
Recommends: aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc, sensible-utils, apt-xapian-index, libparse-debianchangelog-perl

> p   apt-xapian-index Depends    python-xapian (>= 1.0.2)

So I don't really see the problem so far.

BTW, was python-xapian marked as "automatically installed" or not?

> # aptitude purge libxapian22 python-xapian
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   libxapian22{p}  python-xapian{p}
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 6,530 kB will be freed.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libept1.4.12 : Depends: libxapian22 but it is not going to be installed.
>  aptitude : Depends: libxapian22 but it is not going to be installed.

So the bug is about the fact that "aptitude why" just shows one
possible path and not all of them? Or at least not the most
obvious from your point of view?

		Regards, Axel
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