[Aptitude-devel] Bug#663699: aptitude: always sets a package to "remove" which had been marked as "install"

[Johannes Rohr]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.5-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

the following has happened:

I purged the package libsocialweb-client2 using dpkg --purge

In aptitude I re-installed the package

Next time I start aptitude, the package is again set to "remove" thus breaking gnome-control-center and the rest of GNOME

I set the package to "install" again, and everything looks fine. I quit aptitude

Next time I launch aptitude, the package is again set to "remove", even though this breaks other packages

Again, I can manually set the package to "install" and everything looks fine again - until next time I launch aptitude

and so on.

What is fscked up here?




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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.5 compiled at Feb  9 2012 22:17:23
Compiler: g++ 4.6.2
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.10.1
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.9
  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: 4.10.1

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffde7ff000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x00007f092ef83000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f092ed54000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f092eb2b000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f092e926000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f092e61e000)
	libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007f092e3c1000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f092dfc4000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f092ddae000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f092db09000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.48.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.48.0 (0x00007f092d8f0000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f092d6d4000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f092d3cc000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f092d14a000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f092cf34000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f092cbac000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f092c9a9000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f092c7a5000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f092c59f000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f092c38f000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f092c186000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f092f2c1000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (250, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg4.10]      0.8.15.10
ii  libboost-iostreams1.48.0  1.48.0-3
ii  libc6                     2.13-27
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.1
ii  libept1                   1.0.5
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.0~rc1-2
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-4
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.9-1.1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.10-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.0~rc1-2
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-4
ii  libxapian22               1.2.8-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.6.dfsg-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.5-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.6

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  <none>
ii  tasksel  3.08

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