[Aptitude-devel] Bug#877716: qalculate: Removing qalculate removes qalculate-gtk

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 05:15:27PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> The only "issue" I see in that case is that aptitude doesn't yet
> supports APT's APT::Move-Autobit-Sections setting (at least an "git
> grep -i Move-Autobit-Sections" yielded nothing in aptitude's source
> code), i.e. it marks dependencies of transitional packages as
> automatically installed as it does with all other packages installed
> due to being needed as dependency, too.
> 
> If qalculate-gtk was not marked as automatically installed, that's
> probably a bug. (But I must say that I doubt that it's this case. Such
> a bug would have been reported much more earlier as it would probably
> uninstall quite a lot of packages unexpectedly.)

Actually, when I tried earlier today, qalculate-gtk was marked as
automatically installed when installed through the transition qalculate,
even with apt.
I found it odd but didn't give much thought to it.

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