[Aptitude-devel] Bug#668912: aptitude marks random packages are manually installed.

[Daniel Hartwig]

Hello

On 16 April 2012 11:09, dE . <de.techno at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There's no specific pattern in which this happens, an aptitude run
>>> just for searching a package may mark packages manually installed.

How did you determine that 'aptitude search' changed the state, rather
than 'update' or 'upgrade'?

>>
>> That sounds indeed strange.
>>
>> There are quite some issues around loosing the mark-auto state, but
>> that's the first case where a simple search can be the reason.

Yes and, given that, the whole body of code involved needs to be carefully
checked.  So, dE, please do not invest too much time trying to diagnose
this specific case as it should hopefully be picked up anyway.

>
> Unfortunately, this time I couldn't reproduce it at the upgrade, I've an
> outdated Debian system (4.6) which I'll upgrade to see what happens.
>
> Can you please tell me what do you need to upload to prove the bug?

Ideally the output of aptitude-create-state-bundle before the problem and
then the full typescript of commands needed to reproduce it.  Given that
your system is since updated this may not be possible any more.

>
> As of the current time, aptitude update marks libxine1-xvdr as manually
> installed. Attaching output of aptitude --simulate search '~i' | grep
> --invert-match '^i A' before and after update. Check the diffs.

To be sure, did you run only 'aptitude update' before the search and not
also 'upgrade' or 'install'?

Note: the changelog shows that libxine1-xvdr was replaced by
libxine2-xvdr on 2012-02-03 – this may be significant here.


Regards