[Aptitude-devel] Bug#724032: Bug#724032: I thought I said install

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

>>>>> "AB" == Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> writes:

AB> It has, but it's strange anyway. Do you mix aptitude and apt-get? Did
AB> you upgrade or remove other packages which depend on Tcl/Tk with
AB> apt-get or dpkg instead of aptitude.

I've only been using aptitude these months.

AB> Because I would have expected that aptitude would have removed these
AB> packages already when its dependencies vanished. Then again, aptitude
AB> sometimes notices that reverse dependencies are gone only in a second
AB> run (IIRC there is a bug-report for that somewhere), so if this was a
AB> run just after a removal or upgrade run which changed Tcl/Tk's reverse
AB> dependencies, it could have been an incarnation of that bug.

AB> Do you remember what package actions you did before the removal
AB> happened? [...]

AB> With regards to the purging ("p"), do you have requested to
AB> automatically purge all removed packages?

Some of that is noted in a twin bug I just filed...