[Aptitude-devel] Bug#565760: aptitude: wants to remove packages recommended by a package marked as hold

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible


Hi Denis,

2010-01-19 21:00 Denis Laxalde:
>Ok, I attached the file.
>
>Actually, I did the upgrade this morning so the problem has disappeared.
>But I managed to reproduce the situation by downgrading grub to testing
>and holding the package again.
>Here is the aptitude screen which shows the problem:
> --\ Packages being removed because they are no longer used (1)
>idA  os-prober                                     -184kB  1.35       1.35
>--\ Packages being automatically held in their current state (1)
>i A  grub-common                                           1.98~20100 1.98~20100
>--\ Packages being held back (1)
>ih   grub-pc                                               1.98~20100 1.98~20100
>
>Let me know if you need more info.

Have you seen this in recent times?

I cannot reproduce it with your bundle or with the current versions in
unstable, and in general I haven't observed this behaviour about wanting
to remove recommended packages of packages on hold in the last few
years.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>