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

[Daniel Hartwig]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

Thanks for the report.  It does look like something is fishy.

On 15 September 2012 18:09, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> $ 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

On my local sid system, without squeeze sources, the second list does
not include gdm3.

>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')

This looks interesting:

squeeze: Recommends: gdm3 | x-display-manager
sid: Recommends: lightdm | x-display-manager