[Aptitude-devel] Bug#814996: aptitude: purge does not "stick" the first time

[Christian Pernegger]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

let's say I purge some packages and exit aptitude, then relaunch it
later and press [g]. The expected behaviour would be for aptitude to
report there's nothing to do. Instead, all the packages purged in the
previous session show up again, marked for install. If I press [_]
(purge) again at this point, they'll stay down.

Unfortunately this also happens if I actually do something in the
second session -- the purges will just show up as additional installs,
which might easily be missed if the list of changes is excessive.

This occurs on both fresh jessie installs I have.

Regards
Christian Pernegger



-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY not 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 5.9.20140913
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd23d7b000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f70b42ce000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f70b4098000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f70b3e6e000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f70b3c68000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f70b3952000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f70b3689000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007f70b3471000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f70b3060000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f70b2e43000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f70b2b38000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f70b2837000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f70b2621000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f70b2276000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f70b2073000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f70b1e6f000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f70b1c54000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f70b1a44000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f70b1821000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f70b1619000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f70b1414000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f70b4c90000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.9.8.2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                     2.19-18+deb8u3
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.2-10
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.19-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   <none>
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
pn  tasksel           <none>

-- no debconf information