[Aptitude-devel] Bug#766386: aptitude said it would configure packages but doesn't

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1
Severity: minor

I ran this twice, but had to resort to dpkg --configure -a to get the
job actually done.

# aptitude purge
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  man-db  sgml-base  sgml-data
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

# aptitude purge
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  man-db  sgml-base  sgml-data
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

# dpkg --configure -a
Processing triggers for sgml-base (1.26+nmu4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-2) ...

# aptitude purge
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]