[Aptitude-devel] Bug#670153: `aptitude safe-upgrade` removes `automatically installed` label from some packages

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi Paul,

2012-04-26 08:43 Paul Menzel:
>Am Montag, den 23.04.2012, 17:48 +0200 schrieb Axel Beckert:
>
>> Paul Menzel wrote:
>> > I am sorry to file another report against Aptitude and hope I did not
>> > overlook an already existing report for this issue.
>>
>> Thanks for the detailed report.
>>
>> It sounds clearly like some misbehaving.
>>
>> We recently received quite some bug reports about markauto handling,
>> so I suspect that there's likely a bug in there which pops up in a lot
>> of facets.
>
>The strange thing is running `sudo aptitude safe-upgrade` does not
>upgrade the GNOME packages and seems to mark python-pyatspi as *not*
>automatically installed again. I can reproduce this quite reliably.
>
>So please tell me if and how I can get more information for you.
>[...]

Sorry that this has not been handled in a more timely manner.

Can you still reproduce it with more recent versions?

(Note: please use LANG=C or similar in front of the commands to submit
the reports in english, otherwise it's difficult/impossible to follow
sometimes).


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