[Aptitude-devel] Bug#325160: aptitude: Dependency resolution has problems with alternatives

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi Josh,

2016-01-21 00:08 Josh Triplett:
>On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:44:10PM +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>>
>> Have you observed this problem recently?
>>
>> I haven't noticed it recently when installing similar packages (phonon
>> backends come to mind), and I don't think that there are recent reports
>> complaining about that either.
>>
>> Between 2008-2010 the resolver system changed a great deal, so I think
>> that the underlying problem might have been fixed during that time,
>> without this report being closed; or perhaps libapt or an interaction
>> between aptiude<->libapt being fixed.
>>
>> If you still experience it, please confirm if it can be reproduced with
>> the packages above (with the provision of changing names such as
>> openoffice->libreoffice).
>
>totem-xine no longer exists, so that specific instance no longer
>applies.
>
>I don't recall any recent examples where an upgrade wanted to change
>which of a set of alternative dependencies I had installed, in the
>absence of some other specific reason to not just upgrade the installed
>alternative.

OK, thanks.  I will close this report then.  If the problem reappears
hopefully we'll react sooner.


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