[Aptitude-devel] Bug#678832: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages
Christoph Groth
cwg at falma.de
Sun Jun 24 16:15:13 BST 2012
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8-1
Severity: normal
Very recently, the following problem occurred on my box which is running Debian
testing:
aptitude full-upgrade wanted to install texlive-fonts-extra (and many MBs of
packages that texlive-fonts-extra depends upon), though this was not necessary.
I believe that this happened because the new version of texpower in the package
repository depended on texlive-fonts-extra. However, the currently installed
version did not and texpower was going to be removed.
To work around this problem, one can remove texpower manually before the
dist-upgrade.
The thread
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/438192/focus=438240
deals with this bug.
Please find below the output of "apt-cache show texpower" and "aptitude -D
full-upgrade" at the time when the problem occurred.
# apt-cache show texpower
Package: texpower
Source: texlive-extra
Version: 2012.20120611-1
Installed-Size: 122
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-maint at lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: texlive-latex-extra (>= 2011), texlive-fonts-extra (>= 2011), dpkg (>= 1.14.18), tex-common (>= 3)
Description-en: TeX Live: transitional dummy package
This is a transitional package for texpower to ensure proper
upgrade to texlive-latex-extra. It can be safely removed after the
installation is complete.
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Description-md5: b863056b4a7b5e56fe8fa0584f982b26
Tag: office::presentation, role::plugin, use::editing, use::typesetting,
use::viewing, works-with-format::pdf, works-with-format::tex,
works-with::text
Section: oldlibs
Priority: extra
Filename: pool/main/t/texlive-extra/texpower_2012.20120611-1_all.deb
Size: 50182
MD5sum: 32da967f51ce328aace720b60a0346e1
SHA1: d0d9f2f07e803707f5786d74d35666e8b833c299
SHA256: fc5a2bf449d5fbd46e7b9dec68150057f83b955e733c815ccf589d11133f23f4
Package: texpower
Source: texlive-extra
Version: 2012.20120516-1
Installed-Size: 122
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-maint at lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: texlive-latex-extra (>= 2011), texlive-fonts-extra (>= 2011), dpkg (>= 1.14.18), tex-common (>= 3)
Description-en: TeX Live: transitional dummy package
This is a transitional package for texpower to ensure proper
upgrade to texlive-latex-extra. It can be safely removed after the
installation is complete.
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/
Description-md5: b863056b4a7b5e56fe8fa0584f982b26
Tag: office::presentation, role::plugin, use::editing, use::typesetting,
use::viewing, works-with-format::pdf, works-with-format::tex,
works-with::text
Section: tex
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/texlive-extra/texpower_2012.20120516-1_all.deb
Size: 50062
MD5sum: 3fbd47f2ae3daf32678c88c86715e24f
SHA1: 405a03360c98194e3899ffa9217a580d86c14abf
SHA256: 95d4ab72f7223e4003c0e4fc538eab2db1bc4f663eb6d02daad5f8e3e91bd1fc
Package: texpower
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Installed-Size: 387
Maintainer: Rene Engelhard <rene at debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.2-7.1
Replaces: dvips-landscapeplus, latex-automata, tpmultiinc
Provides: dvips-landscapeplus, latex-automata, tpmultiinc
Depends: texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended, dpkg (>= 1.14.18), tex-common (>= 2.00)
Recommends: xpdf | pdf-viewer, texpower-manual
Suggests: texpower-examples
Conflicts: dvips-landscapeplus, latex-automata, tpmultiinc
Conffiles:
/etc/texmf/tex/latex/texpower/tpoptions.cfg 2cccd1df038528659eaeb6b905cfb085
/etc/texmf/tex/latex/texpower/tpcolors.cfg e3254d02d2f07ca8ba9eaa8c9436d358
/etc/texmf/tex/latex/texpower/tpsettings.cfg fd92794901dc34d05ddb40ebdeb5879f
/etc/texmf/dvips/config.landscapeplus 87f912f00a7025fad36077beffbf23d7
Description: Macros for creating professional presentations with LaTeX
TeXPower is a bundle of style and class files for creating dynamic
online presentations with LaTeX.
.
It is the most complete macro package in this way and therefore in its
features quite unique.
.
This package also contains some additional packages:
- latex-automata: Create "automata" for computer science (currently
DFA and Mealy)
- tpmultiinc: macros to create "incremental images" in presentations
- dvips-landscapeplus: better paper sizes for a4 and letter (landscape)
# aptitude -D full-upgrade
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fonts-comfortaa{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-artemisia{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-complutum{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-didot{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-neohellenic{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-olga{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-gfs-solomos{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-inconsolata{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-junicode{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-linuxlibertine{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra, S: python-docutils)
fonts-oflb-asana-math{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
fonts-sil-gentium{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra, R: fonts-sil-gentium-basic)
fonts-sil-gentium-basic{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra)
ipython-notebook-common{a} (D: ipython-notebook)
libgegl-0.2-0{a} (D: gimp) libnspr4 libnss3
otf-freefont{a} (D: texlive-fonts-extra) texlive-fonts-extra
texlive-fonts-extra-doc{a} (R: texlive-fonts-extra)
texlive-xetex{a} (R: fonts-oflb-asana-math)
valgrind-dbg{a} (R: valgrind)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libgegl-0.1-0{u} (D: gimp)
texpower{u} (R: texlive-latex-extra, R: texpower-manual)
texpower-manual{u} (R: texpower)
The following packages will be upgraded:
alsa-utils audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data
autopoint browser-plugin-gnash bsdmainutils bsdutils
debian-archive-keyring dict dictionaries-common dmidecode gdb-doc
gettext gettext-base gimp gimp-data glib-networking
glib-networking-common glib-networking-services gnash gnash-common
gnome-themes-standard gsettings-desktop-schemas gvfs gvfs-backends
gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs ipython ipython-doc
ipython-notebook ipython-qtconsole klibc-utils kmod libaprutil1
libasound2 libasound2-dev libasound2-plugins libasprintf0c2
libaudclient2 libaudcore1 libavcodec53 libavformat53 libavutil51
libblkid1 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libdnet libevent-2.0-5 libfftw3-3
libgettextpo0 libgimp2.0 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-bin
libglib2.0-data libglib2.0-dev libklibc libkmod2 libkpathsea6
liblcms1 libmount1 libmysqlclient16 libnautilus-extension1a
libnewt0.52 libnspr4-0d libnss3-1d libopenmpi-dev libopenmpi1.3
libperl5.14 libpostproc52 libproxy0 libptexenc1 libpulse0
libsmbclient libswscale2 libtdb1 libuuid1 libwbclient0 libxapian22
libxi-dev libxi6 libxml-libxml-perl libxml2 libxml2-utils libyelp0
linux-headers-3.2.0-2-amd64 linux-headers-3.2.0-2-common
linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 linux-libc-dev logrotate lsb-base
lsb-release module-init-tools mount music123 myspell-pl
mysql-common openmpi-bin openmpi-checkpoint openmpi-common perl
perl-base perl-doc perl-modules python-gi python-gobject
python-pyexiv2 python-pyexiv2-doc python-pyparsing python-zmq sudo
texlive texlive-base texlive-binaries texlive-common
texlive-doc-base texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils
texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
texlive-generic-recommended texlive-lang-dutch texlive-lang-french
texlive-lang-german texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex texlive-metapost
texlive-metapost-doc texlive-pictures texlive-pictures-doc
texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-publishers
texlive-publishers-doc texlive-science texlive-science-doc
traceroute update-inetd util-linux valgrind whiptail xfce4-notifyd
xfce4-volumed xinput xserver-common xserver-xephyr
xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-synaptics yelp-xsl
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
gnome-keyring (R: gvfs-backends, S: libgnome-keyring0)
uuid-runtime (R: libuuid1)
154 packages upgraded, 22 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,130 MB of archives. After unpacking 781 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] ^C
-- 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 => (0x00007fffc7bc0000)
libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f88660cd000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f8865e9d000)
libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f8865c73000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f8865a6e000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f886576e000)
libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 (0x00007f886551b000)
libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f8865135000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f8864f1d000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f8864c71000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007f8864a58000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f886483c000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f8864534000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f88642b2000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f886409c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f8863d14000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f8863b11000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f886390d000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f88636fc000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f88634f7000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f88632ee000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f8866a59000)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-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 0.9.6
ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-3
ii libc6 2.13-33
ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.3
ii libept1.4.12 1.0.6.1
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.0-8
ii libncursesw5 5.9-8
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.12.1-1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.0-8
ii libtinfo5 5.9-8
ii libxapian22 1.2.10-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-11+b1
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn apt-xapian-index <none>
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.8-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.7
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn debtags <none>
ii tasksel 3.09
-- no debconf information
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