[Aptitude-devel] Bug#555014: "w" command can't show dependencies while "aptitude why" can

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi Dmitry,

2009-11-07 23:52 Dmitry Semyonov:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b2
>Severity: normal
>
>The following console output demonstrates the problem.
>
>$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
>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 upgraded:
>  cups-pdf libhtml-parser-perl libknotificationitem-1-1
>3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>Need to get 190kB of archives. After unpacking 73.7kB will be used.
>Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] w cups-pdf
>Unable to find a reason to install cups-pdf.
> [...]
>Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] w libhtml-parser-perl
>Unable to find a reason to install libhtml-parser-perl.
> [...]
>Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] w libknotificationitem-1-1
>Unable to find a reason to install libknotificationitem-1-1.
> [...]
>Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
>Abort.
>
>$ aptitude why cups-pdf
>i   cups-pdf PreDepends cups (>= 1.1.15)
>i A cups     Suggests   cups-pdf
>
>$ aptitude why libhtml-parser-perl
>i   smokeping   Depends libwww-perl
>i A libwww-perl Depends libhtml-parser-perl
>
>$ aptitude why libknotificationitem-1-1
>i   kshisen         Depends kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.3.0)
>i A kdebase-runtime Depends libknotificationitem-1-1 (>= 4:4.3.1)

Thanks for your report.

There was a fundamental problem with the implementation, I wonder if it
ever worked.

It is fixed now, will be present in the next release, so marking as
+pending.


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