[Aptitude-devel] Bug#516131: aptitude: unmarkauto not working?

[Francesco Potortì]

>2009-02-19 13:01 Francesco Potort�:
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>> tucano:/tmp# aptitude unmarkauto glpk-doc glpk-utils
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Reading extended state information
>> Initializing package states... Done
>> Reading task descriptions... Done
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>   glpk-doc{u} glpk-utils{u}
>> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1892kB will be freed.
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]   n
>> Abort.
>>
>>Something is going wrong.  I cannot seem to be able to tell aptitude
>>that I really want those packages.
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>Unfortunately this package does not exist and the new octave-info
>doesn't have the same dependencies.
>
>But in general, I have not observed this kind of behaviour nor have seen
>bugs reported related to this in the recent years/versions.  Some parts
>of the resolver were changed a lot in those years, esp. in the run up to
>0.6.
>
>Have you experienced the same behaviour since, or did it only happen
>during that time?

Maybe I have had the same behaviour other times, but I do not remember.
The only thing that I know is that I still remember that every time I
tried using nomarkauto it did not work, but it is not something that I
do often.

Also, I suspect that nomarkauto is a rarely used command, so I would not
rely on lack of feedback to assume that it works.  And osrry, I have not
ime now to devise a different test to check the functionality of
unmarkauto. 

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