[Aptitude-devel] Bug#566343: aptitude constantly switches between console-setup and console-setup-mini

[Russ Allbery]

"Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> writes:
> 2010-01-28 17:59 Daniel Burrows:

>>  I tracked down one bug that was part of this: aptitude was incorrectly
>> treating the automatic removal as a "manual" action, so it was
>> penalizing solutions that restore the package.  However, in at least
>> one of the two cases that's involved, it still tries to switch to the
>> other console-setup package, because it solves more outstanding
>> dependencies than the alternative, so it looks like a locally better
>> solution.  Probably an argument for tracking down those algorithms to
>> split a constraint graph and work on it piecewise...
>>
>>  I might wait a bit on rewiring the upgrade commands.  It'll require
>> a bunch of coding, and I suspect that it won't actually fix all the
>> problems (there are probably cases where aptitude would get confused
>> and start fixing dependencies of stuff that was going to be removed
>> anyway).  The real fix here is to integrate autoremoval into the
>> dependency solver, so it knows exactly what the outcomes of its actions
>> are.

> Have you experienced this problem lately?

I haven't.  I've mostly switched over to using apt, and haven't run into
any problems when I've used aptitude.

It's fine to close this bug from my perspective if you think it's probably
fixed.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>