[Aptitude-devel] Bug#667750: aptitude: Aptitude forgets auto-installed status

Fri Apr 6 13:34:44 UTC 2012

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.6-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

It seems that aptitude tend to forget quite often what is autoinstalled and autoinstalled packages are no longer marked as autoinstalled.
In one case I checked for a package that is parked as autoinstalled.

I was not running any other dpkg/apt-get/aptitude commands in other terminals in the meantim, except for "aptitude search",
 which should only query the repository and not change it.

Basicaly what I've done is:
# aptitude show  libimobiledevice2
....
Automatically installed: yes
....

# aptitude markauto  libglib-perl   libdevel-symdump-perl libcairo-perl
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libcairo-perl{u} libglib-perl{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1334 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
(Reading database ... 391203 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libcairo-perl ...
Removing libglib-perl ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

# aptitude show  libimobiledevice2
....
Automatically installed: no
....

Then libimobiledevice2 is no longer autoinstalled.
Similar things happend quite often, ultimately leading to leaving lots of obsolete unused stuff on my system as it gets upgraded,
 which I have to manually remove.

--- Full log ---
# aptitude show  libimobiledevice2
Package: libimobiledevice2
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 1.1.1-4
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Maintainer: gtkpod Maintainers <pkg-gtkpod-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 137 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.1), libgnutls26
         (>= 2.12.17-0), libplist1 (>= 0.16), libtasn1-3 (>=
         1.6-0), libusbmuxd1 (>= 1.0.0), usbmuxd
Conflicts: libiphone0
Replaces: libimobiledevice0, libimobiledevice1, libiphone0
Description: Library for communicating with the iPhone and iPod Touch
 libimobiledevice is a library that talks the native Apple USB
 protocols that the iPhone and iPod Touch use. Unlike other
 projects, libimobiledevice does not depend on using any existing
 libraries from Apple.
Homepage: http://libimobiledevice.org/

# aptitude markauto  libglib-perl   libdevel-symdump-perl libcairo-perl
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libcairo-perl{u} libglib-perl{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1334 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
(Reading database ... 391203 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libcairo-perl ...
Removing libglib-perl ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

# aptitude show  libimobiledevice2
Package: libimobiledevice2
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.1.1-4
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Maintainer: gtkpod Maintainers <pkg-gtkpod-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 137 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.1), libgnutls26
         (>= 2.12.17-0), libplist1 (>= 0.16), libtasn1-3 (>=
         1.6-0), libusbmuxd1 (>= 1.0.0), usbmuxd
Conflicts: libiphone0
Replaces: libimobiledevice0, libimobiledevice1, libiphone0
Description: Library for communicating with the iPhone and iPod Touch
 libimobiledevice is a library that talks the native Apple USB
 protocols that the iPhone and iPod Touch use. Unlike other
 projects, libimobiledevice does not depend on using any existing
 libraries from Apple.
Homepage: http://libimobiledevice.org/

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.6 compiled at Mar 27 2012 22:36:24
Compiler: g++ 4.6.3
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.10.1
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.10.1

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff0f3ff000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x00007f3d48df6000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f3d48bc7000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f3d4899e000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f3d48799000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f3d48491000)
	libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007f3d48234000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f3d47e37000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f3d47c21000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f3d47979000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.48.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.48.0 (0x00007f3d47760000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f3d47544000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f3d4723c000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f3d46fba000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f3d46da4000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f3d46a1c000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f3d46819000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f3d46615000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f3d4640f000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f3d461ff000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f3d45ff6000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f3d49136000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg4.10]      0.8.15.10
ii  libboost-iostreams1.48.0  1.48.0-3
ii  libc6                     2.13-27
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.1
ii  libept1                   1.0.5
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.0-2
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-5
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.11-2
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.0-2
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-5
ii  libxapian22               1.2.8-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.6.dfsg-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                <none>
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.6-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   <none>
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.6

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags  <none>
pn  tasksel  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logrotate.d/aptitude changed:
/var/log/aptitude {
  rotate 2
  daily
  compress
  missingok
  notifempty
}

-- no debconf information