[Aptitude-devel] Bug#746995: aptitude upgrade is inconsistent (UI vs command line)

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.10-1
Severity: normal

With an upgrade from the UI (key U), aptitude wants to remove
sysvinit-core by default:

 Actions  Undo  Package  Resolver  Search  Options  Views  Help
C-T: Menu  ?: Help  q: Quit  u: Update  g: Download/Install/Remove Pkgs
                Packages                                Preview
aptitude 0.6.10                 Will free 67.6 kB of disk spac DL Size: 296 kB
--\ Packages being automatically held in their current state (1)                
iFA python-pil                 2.2.1-3                  2.3.0-2
--\ Packages being automatically installed to satisfy dependencies (2)
piA libpam-systemd   +118 kB   <none>                   204-10                  
piA systemd-sysv     +67.6 kB  <none>                   204-10                  
--\ Packages being deleted due to unsatisfied dependencies (1)
idA sysvinit-core    -252 kB   2.88dsf-53               2.88dsf-53              
--\ Packages being held back (4)
iF  fvwm                       1:2.5.30.ds-1.1+local1   1:2.6.5.ds-3
iF  gthumb                     3:3.2.6-1+b1             3:3.3.1-2
iF  gthumb-data                3:3.2.6-1                3:3.3.1-2
iF  python-imaging             2.2.1-3                  2.3.0-2
--\ Packages to be upgraded (6)
iu  gir1.2-polkit-1.           0.105-4                  0.105-5                 
iu  libpolkit-agent-           0.105-4                  0.105-5                 
iu  libpolkit-backen           0.105-4                  0.105-5                 
iu  libpolkit-gobjec           0.105-4                  0.105-5                 
iu  libpolkit-gobjec -1,024 B  0.105-4                  0.105-5                 
iu  policykit-1                0.105-4                  0.105-5                 

but with "aptitude upgrade" from the command line, everything is fine:

# aptitude upgrade
Resolving dependencies...                
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpam-systemd{a} systemd-shim{a} 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gir1.2-polkit-1.0 libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-backend-1-0 
  libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-dev policykit-1 
6 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 285 kB of archives. After unpacking 211 kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.10 compiled at Feb 20 2014 17:26:22
Compiler: g++ 4.8.2
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.11
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140118
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff45ae2000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f2673dfa000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f2673bc5000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f267399a000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f2673795000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f267348e000)
	libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x00007f2673231000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f2672e33000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f2672c1b000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f267295e000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0 (0x00007f2672744000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f2672527000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f267221b000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f2671f18000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f2671d02000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2671957000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f2671754000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f2671550000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f267133f000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f267111c000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f2670f16000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f2670d0e000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f2674792000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.10-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.54.0  1.54.0-5
ii  libc6                     2.18-5
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-1
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.12
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.0-2
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140118-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.11-3
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.4.3-2
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.0-2
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140118-1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.17-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.46
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.10-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags  <none>
ii  tasksel  3.20

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