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

[matthias.hinkfoth2 at uni-rostock.de]

Hi,

I enjoyed playing around with this bug.
My test setup involves google-mock as package, but I think this is
somewhat arbitrary. I chose google-mock, because no package depends
on it.

Setup:
jessie and wheezy in sources.list, amd64, package google-mock installed

1. start aptitude as a user
2. search google-mock
3. [-] (mark for removal)
4. OK (package cache read-only)
5. [g]
	now the preview opens.
	google-mock is to be removed,
	libgtest-dev is to be removed, because no longer used
6. [g]
7. become root :-)
8. [g]
	actual removal.
9. now the package view says: will use 2,187 kB of disk spac ...
10. [g]
	packages to be installed: google-mock and libgtest-dev
	interestingly libgtest-dev will not be automatically
	installed, but manually!


I cannot reproduce this behaviour, when I become root before doing
the removal.

In the end, this looks to me to be 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570492
since it involves becoming root in between the package action.


Regards,
Matthias