[Aptitude-devel] Bug#819636: aptitude: wants to remove a recommended package

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Thu Mar 31 11:55:11 UTC 2016


Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.8-1
Severity: important

On upgrade from the UI, aptitude wants to remove the gmp-ecm package.
The given reason is:

gmp-ecm was installed automatically; it is being removed because all of the    ▒
packages which depend upon it are being removed:                               ▒

and no packages are listed!!!

ypig:~> aptitude why gmp-ecm
i   libecm0 Recommends gmp-ecm (= 6.4.4+ds-5)

However, for the proposed upgrade, libecm0 is not upgraded/removed.

ypig:~> apt-show-versions -a libecm0
libecm0:amd64 6.4.4+ds-5 install ok installed
libecm0:amd64 6.4.4-2    stable   ftp.fr.debian.org
No stable-updates version
libecm0:amd64 6.4.4+ds-5 testing  ftp.fr.debian.org
libecm0:amd64 6.4.4+ds-5 unstable ftp.fr.debian.org
No experimental version
libecm0:amd64/testing 6.4.4+ds-5 uptodate
libecm0:i386 6.4.4-2    stable   ftp.fr.debian.org
No stable-updates version
libecm0:i386 6.4.4+ds-5 testing  ftp.fr.debian.org
libecm0:i386 6.4.4+ds-5 unstable ftp.fr.debian.org
No experimental version
libecm0:i386 not installed

ypig:~> apt-show-versions -a gmp-ecm
gmp-ecm:amd64 6.4.4+ds-5 install ok installed
gmp-ecm:amd64 6.4.4-2    stable   ftp.fr.debian.org
No stable-updates version
gmp-ecm:amd64 6.4.4+ds-5 testing  ftp.fr.debian.org
gmp-ecm:amd64 7.0+ds-1   unstable ftp.fr.debian.org
No experimental version
gmp-ecm:amd64/testing 6.4.4+ds-5 upgradeable to 7.0+ds-1
gmp-ecm:i386 6.4.4-2    stable   ftp.fr.debian.org
No stable-updates version
gmp-ecm:i386 6.4.4+ds-5 testing  ftp.fr.debian.org
gmp-ecm:i386 7.0+ds-1   unstable ftp.fr.debian.org
No experimental version
gmp-ecm:i386 not installed

but "apt-get dist-upgrade -s" says that gmp-ecm can't be upgraded.

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10aptitude currently contains:

Aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M %p %Z %24v %24V";
Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost "safety, removals";

I've attached an archive of the /var/lib/aptitude directory.

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-debian
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7.8
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 6.0.20160319
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffd7c24000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007fc06cf9f000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fc06cd6f000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fc06cb44000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fc06c93d000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fc06c640000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fc06c348000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fc06c12e000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fc06bf15000)
	libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fc06bd10000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fc06b90c000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc06b6ef000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fc06b373000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc06b075000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fc06ae5f000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc06aaba000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fc06a8b7000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc06a6b3000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fc06a49b000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc06a280000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fc06a070000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fc069e4c000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fc069c3a000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fc069a31000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fc06982c000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055ca0c410000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.7.8-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.2.9
ii  libboost-filesystem1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0   1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libboost-system1.58.0      1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libc6                      2.22-5
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:5.3.1-13
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20160319-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.8.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.11.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                 5.3.1-13
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20160319-1
ii  libxapian22v5              1.2.22-3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.7.8-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-8
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.47+nmu2
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.34

-- no debconf information
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