[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841347: Bug#841347: packages are not marked as auto "i A" in aptitude

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Wed Oct 19 21:48:03 UTC 2016


Hi Michael,

Michael Biebl wrote:
> So if I install via apt, the auto state is not properly set for
> aptitude. I have no idea how apt and aptitude interact and if the
> autobit is something which is supposed to be shared between both?

It is.

> Do they access the same database

Nowadays they do.

> or is aptitude tracking this information on its own?

It did it before apt did and hence used its own database in the past.
But that was fixed IIRC years ago.

		Regards, Axel
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