[Aptitude-devel] Bug#685310: aptitude: Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant defaults to true

[Andrew Pimlott]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I have a package intalled that is not depended upon by any other
intalled package, or recommended, but is suggested by another installed
package (specifically, libterm-readline-gnu-perl).  If I run

    aptitude markauto libterm-readline-gnu-perl

it is not proposed for removal.  The manual says this should be guided
by Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant, which defaults to false.
However, this does not seem to be the case, because if I run

    aptitude -o Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant=false markauto libterm-readline-gnu-perl

it proposes to remove the package.  I checked to make sure that my
~/.aptitude/config (pasted here) does not have any relevant options:

    aptitude "";
    aptitude::UI "";
    aptitude::UI::New-Package-Commands "true";
    aptitude::UI::Package-Header-Format "%N %n #%B %u %o";
    aptitude::UI::Package-Status-Format "%d";
    aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M %p %t %15v %15V";
    aptitude::UI::Default-Grouping "filter(missing),task,status";
    aptitude::UI::Advance-On-Action "true";
    aptitude::UI::Description-Visible-By-Default "true";
    aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Download-Bar "false";
    aptitude::UI::Pause-After-Download "false";
    aptitude::UI::Prompt-On-Exit "true";
    aptitude::UI::Exit-On-Last-Close "true";
    aptitude::UI::Incremental-Search "true";
    aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Prompts "true";
    aptitude::UI::Menubar-Autohide "true";
    aptitude::UI::HelpBar "false";
    aptitude::UI::Auto-Show-Reasons "true";
    aptitude::Pkg-Display-Limit "";
    aptitude::Auto-Install "true";
    aptitude::Auto-Fix-Broken "true";
    aptitude::Delete-Unused "true";
    aptitude::Purge-Unused "true";
    aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern "";
    aptitude::Auto-Upgrade "true";
    aptitude::AutoClean-After-Update "true";
    aptitude::Changelog-URL-Template "http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=%s";
    aptitude::Display-Planned-Action "true";
    aptitude::Forget-New-On-Update "false";
    aptitude::Forget-New-On-Install "false";
    aptitude::Warn-Not-Root "true";
    aptitude::Log "/var/log/aptitude";
    aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern "";

By the way, typos: the manual incorrectly refers to
Apt::AutoRemove::Suggests-Important and
Apt::AutoRemove::Recommends-Important in a few places (note the
hyphens).

Andrew

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8 compiled at Jun  9 2012 10:02:58
Compiler: g++ 4.7.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  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: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffa3dff000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f1d155bd000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f1d1538d000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f1d15163000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f1d14f5e000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f1d14c5e000)
	libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 (0x00007f1d149bd000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f1d145d8000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f1d143c1000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f1d14115000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007f1d13efc000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f1d13ce0000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f1d139d8000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f1d13756000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f1d13540000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1d131b8000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f1d12fb5000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1d12db1000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f1d12ba0000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f1d1299b000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f1d12792000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1d15f4b000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.8-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3.1
ii  libc6                     2.13-33
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.9
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.1-2
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-10
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.1-2
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii  libxapian22               1.2.12-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   <none>
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags  <none>
ii  tasksel  3.11

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