[Aptitude-devel] Bug#798530: [aptitude] safe-upgrade is marking packages as manually installed

[Jon Ander Peñalba]

Package: aptitude

Version: 0.6.11-1+b1

Severity: normal


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Some packages are being marked as manually installed after running
'aptitude safe-upgrade', is this normal behavior?


Example:


# aptitude search libboost-date-time1.55.0
i   libboost-date-time1.55.0


# aptitude markauto libboost-date-time1.55.0
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 290 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.


# aptitude search libboost-date-time1.55.0
i A libboost-date-time1.55.0


# aptitude safe-upgrade
Resolving dependencies...
open: 1232; closed: 3965; defer: 91; conflict: 433

No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 290 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

# aptitude search libboost-date-time1.55.0
i   libboost-date-time1.55.0



--- System information. ---

Architecture: amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64


Debian Release: stretch/sid

500 testing httpredir.debian.org


--- Package information. ---

Package's Depends field is empty.


Package's Recommends field is empty.


Package's Suggests field is empty.



--- Output from package bug script ---

Terminal: xterm

:0 is set.

which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude


aptitude version information:

aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov 8 2014 13:34:39

Compiler: g++ 4.9.1

Compiled against:

apt version 4.12.0

NCurses version 5.9

libsigc++ version: 2.4.0

Gtk+ support disabled.

Qt support disabled.


Current library versions:

NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20150810

cwidget version: 0.5.17

Apt version: 4.12.0


aptitude linkage:

linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcaf7ca000)

libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
(0x00007f9b4ecbc000)

libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5
(0x00007f9b4ea8c000)

libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f9b4e861000)

libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x00007f9b4e65b000)

libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3
(0x00007f9b4e345000)

libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x00007f9b4e077000)

libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007f9b4de5f000)

libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f9b4da48000)

libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
(0x00007f9b4d82a000)

libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
(0x00007f9b4d51e000)

libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f9b4d21d000)

libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f9b4d006000)

libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9b4cc5d000)

libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f9b4ca5a000)

libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f9b4c855000)

libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f9b4c63a000)

libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f9b4c42a000)

liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f9b4c206000)

librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f9b4bffe000)

libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f9b4bdf8000)

/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00005600778b2000)
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