[Aptitude-devel] Bug#815551: aptitude: safe-upgrade removes manually installed package if dependency is on hold

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2016-02-23 23:52 To Sven Joachim:
>2016-02-23 17:20 Sven Joachim:
>>On 2016-02-22 23:27 +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>>
>>>Have you used 0.7.5 until now and this only happens after upgrading
>>>aptitude to .6?
>>
>>Yes.
>>
>>>Did something else happen since the last time that you
>>>ran safe-upgrade, e.g. upgrade of apt?
>>
>>No, the last upgrade of the apt packages was on 2016-02-10, twelve days
>>before the aptitude upgrade.
>>
>>>Also, if you hold and then unhold wine and iceweasel-l10n-de, it keeps
>>>trying to remove them as unused, or did it only happen the first time
>>>(before marking them as hold)?
>>
>>It keeps trying to remove them.
>
>I tried to reproduce it with my versions installed (44) and no luck.
>
>A shot in the dark, did you or do you have any of the rev-deps
>installed?
>
>	iceweasel-l10n-all, parl-desktop-eu, education-desktop-other,
>	task-german-desktop
>
>Strange question, but I was wondering if it's a bug coming from the
>other way around, a rev-dep of those considering it automatically
>installed when they aren't.

BTW, do you have many packages set on hold, or only these ones or very
few?

Asking because if you have many on hold, it might be a special case that
only happens to these packages and not others; but you only have these
on hold and the problem is already occuring, then maybe it's a much
wider issue.


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