[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816497: aptitude: problems with (un)markauto

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.7-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer Team,

after upgrading to gnupg2 (from gnupg) due to upgrading enigmail,
the command "aptitude unmarkauto gnupg2" does not work according
to the output of

  aptitude -F '%M %p' search gnupg2

and

  apt-mark showmanual gnupg2

After commanding

  apt-mark manual gnupg2

only "apt-mark" shows that package gnupg2 is now marked as "manually
installed".
In /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates also the "State" of gnupg2 does not
change. Package gnupg2 has the new attribute "Auto-New-Install" which is
set to "yes". In the changelog there is nothing written about this new
attribute.

What's going on?

Regards,
Jörg-Volker.

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Terminal: eterm-color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7.7
Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160224
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.0
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.6.2
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160213
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff8fb50000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
(0x00007f49c6e30000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f49c6c00000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f49c69d5000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f49c67cf000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f49c64d2000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f49c61fb000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f49c5fe1000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f49c5dc8000)
	libboost_system.so.1.58.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f49c5bc3000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f49c57bf000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f49c55a2000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f49c5226000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f49c4f21000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f49c4d0b000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f49c4966000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f49c4763000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f49c455f000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f49c4347000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f49c412c000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f49c3f1c000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f49c3cf8000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f49c3ae6000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f49c38dd000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f49c36d8000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00005608772ca000)
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