[Aptitude-devel] Bug#681021: aptitude: Tries to use debtags even if debtags is not installed

[Axel Beckert]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.9-1~exp1
Severity: important

Hi,

aptitude 0.6.9 tries to use debtags even if debtags is not installed,
resulting (besides trying to build a tag database which 0.6.8 didn't
without debtags being installed) in the following error on (interactive)
startup:

E: Could not open file /var/lib/debtags/package-tags - open (2: No such file or directory)

debtags is just a "Suggests"(*) of aptitude and hence it should be
handled as such.

(*) IMHO that should stay that way as debtags IMHO is a resource hog
    which is not necessary on many systems.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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           0.6.9-1~exp1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3.1
ii  libc6                     2.13-34
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.1-3
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                4.7.1-3
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii  libxapian22               1.2.12-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

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

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