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

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote on 03/04/16 12:19:
> Control: tags -1 - moreinfo + pending
> 
> (re-sending, didn't seem to work the first time)
> 
> 2016-03-03 23:08 GMT+00:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
> <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> And I think the difference is that on my system the package gnupg2 has the
>>> additional new attribute "Auto-New-Install" set to "yes" in the file
>>> /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.
>>> Indeed, for any package with this new attribute in
>>> var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates
>>> "aptitude (un)markauto" doesn't work.
>>> For a package without this new attribute "(un)markauto" still works here.
>>
>> Uhm, that's an interesting hint, thanks.  I will look into this in the
>> next days.
> 
> So I changed this to only save this flag if the package is still
> pending for installation, otherwise removes it.
> 
> 
> Cheers.
> 
Thanks Manuel,

I'll test it as soon as it's available in the repository.

Best regards,
Jörg-Volker.