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

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

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