[Aptitude-devel] Bug#687700: aptitude returns some reverse-recommends when searching for reverse-depends

[Andrei POPESCU]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

See below output.

$ aptitude search '?reverse-recommends(lxde)' | grep dm
p   gdm                             - GNOME Display Manager
p   gdm3                            - Next generation GNOME Display Manager
p   kdm                             - KDE Display Manager for X11
i A lightdm                         - simple display manager
p   wdm                             - WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement
p   xdm                             - X display manager
$ aptitude search '?reverse-depends(lxde)' | grep dm
p   gdm3                            - Next generation GNOME Display Manager
i A lightdm                         - simple display manager

For unknown reasons aptitude returns the two display managers which are 
only recommended by lxde when searching for reverse-depends. This does 
not happen on stable.

Kind regards,
Andrei

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8.1 compiled at Aug 28 2012 06:12:42
Compiler: g++ 4.7.1
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-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb779b000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb7229000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb71f6000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb71d5000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb71d0000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb70d0000)
	libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0xb703d000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6e54000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6e3a000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6d89000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0xb6d71000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6d58000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6c6c000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6c45000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6c28000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6acb000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6ac7000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6ac3000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6ab1000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6aab000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6aa2000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb779c000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-rt-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.8.1-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.5
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3.1
ii  libc6                     2.13-35
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.9
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.1-8
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                4.7.1-8
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
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.8.1-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  1.10.2
ii  tasksel  3.13

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