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

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Sb, 15 sep 12, 18:34:56, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> 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

Yes, but neither explains why *dm's show up in the *depends* ;)

Kind regards,
Andrei
P.S. Thank you for taking care of aptitude, life on sid would be so much 
harder without it :)
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