[Aptitude-devel] Bug#789803: aptitude: sudo aptitude --purge-unused purge left many packages

[Yurii Kolesnykov]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
sudo aptitude install --add-user-tag my_tag zim
sudo aptitude --purge-unused --remove-user-tag my_tag purge zim
   * What was the outcome of this action?
aptitude search '~i ?user-tag(my_tag)' |wc -l
59
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
0

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY not set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov  8 2014 13:34:39
Compiler: g++ 4.9.1
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.4.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20150516
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd45987000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007fe5f9f1b000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fe5f9ce5000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fe5f9abb000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fe5f98b5000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fe5f959f000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fe5f92d1000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007fe5f90b9000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fe5f8ca2000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fe5f8a85000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fe5f8779000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fe5f8478000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fe5f8262000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fe5f7eb9000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fe5f7cb6000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fe5f7ab2000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fe5f7897000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fe5f7687000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fe5f7464000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fe5f725c000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fe5f7057000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fe5fa8dd000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.0.6-1-ck (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.9.10
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                     2.19-18
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:5.1.1-12
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20150516-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.10.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                5.1.1-12
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20150516-2
ii  libxapian22               1.2.21-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.11-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-4
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
pn  tasksel           <none>

-- no debconf information