[Aptitude-devel] Bug#557183: aptitude: insists on installing gawk when other awks are present

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible


Hi Brian,

2009-11-20 05:27 brian m. carlson:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.0.1-1
>Severity: normal
>
>On my system, I have mawk and original-awk installed, whereas gawk is
>not.  The only package that depends on any awk whatsoever is base-files,
>which has a pre-dependency.  This pre-dependency is satisfied by both
>mawk and original-awk.  However, aptitude seems to want to install gawk
>to satisfy this dependency and insists on trying to do so every time I
>mark packages for upgrade.
>
>Obviously, since the sole dependency (including recommends and suggests)
>is satisfied, there is no reason for aptitude to attempt to install
>gawk.  This is irksome because I really do not want gawk installed.
>
>I think aptitude should not try to install gawk if the dependency is
>already satisfied (and will remain so).

I could not test with those packages/versions, but I can test in a
similar scenario and I couldn't reproduce it (even if the package
explicitly depends on "gawk"), so I am guessing that it was fixing in
the intervening years, probably in the run up to aptitude 0.6.

(in curses)

1) removing gawk

2) podget depends on "gawk (>= 4.0.0) | mawk (>= 1.3.0)"

3) installing podget doesn't pull in gawk, it is happy with mawk


If you can still see this issue, could you please provide a reproducible
case?


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