[Aptitude-devel] Bug#769152: aptitude: Aptitude whu ignores --without-recommends

[Jacob Mansfield]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
Attempting to find why aptitude wants to install x11 on a headless server

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
aptitude why --without-recommends xserver-xorg

   * What was the outcome of this action?
root at helix:~# aptitude why xserver-xorg
i   reportbug               Suggests   claws-mail (>= 3.8.0)
p   claws-mail              Recommends xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi | xfonts-100dpi-transcoded | xfonts-75dpi-transcoded
p   xfonts-75dpi-transcoded Suggests   xfs | xserver
p   xserver-xorg            Provides   xserver

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
Reason to install xserver-xord without 'Recommends' or 'Suggests' style dependencies

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-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY not set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov  7 2012 07:08:03
Compiler: g++ 4.7.2
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-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff84bff000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007ff275881000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007ff275651000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007ff275427000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007ff275222000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007ff274f22000)
	libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x00007ff274c81000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007ff27489c000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007ff274685000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007ff2743d9000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007ff2743be000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ff2741a2000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ff273e9a000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff273c18000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ff273a02000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff273675000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ff273472000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ff27326e000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007ff27305d000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007ff272e58000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007ff272c4f000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff276204000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.8.2-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.9+deb7u6
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3.2
ii  libc6                     2.13-38+deb7u6
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.9
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-10
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii  libxapian22               1.2.12-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   <none>
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags  <none>
ii  tasksel  3.14.1

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