[Aptitude-devel] Bug#851908: Obsolete only removed not purged

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.4-1
Severity: minor

Alas, even though one uses
Aptitude::Purge-Unused true;
there still needs to be a Aptitude::Purge-Obsolete or something, to get
rid of this too.

# aptitude search ~o
i   android-tools-adb                               - Android Debug Bridge CLI tool
# aptitude install adb
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  adb{b} (B: android-tools-adb)  android-libadb{a} (D: adb) (adb D: android-libadb)
  android-libbase{a} (D: adb, D: android-libadb) (adb D: android-libbase)
  android-libcutils{a} (D: adb, D: android-libadb) (adb D: android-libcutils)
  android-liblog{a} (D: android-libbase, D: android-libcutils) (adb D: android-libcutils D: android-liblog)
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  android-sdk-platform-tools-common (R: adb)
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 230 kB of archives. After unpacking 620 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 adb : Breaks: android-tools-adb but 5.1.1.r29-2 is installed
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1)     android-tools-adb [5.1.1.r29-2 (now)]

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  adb  android-libadb{a} (D: adb) (adb D: android-libadb)
  android-libbase{a} (D: adb, D: android-libadb) (adb D:
  android-libbase)

  android-libcutils{a} (D: adb, D: android-libadb) (adb D: android-libcutils)
  android-liblog{a} (D: android-libbase, D: android-libcutils) (adb D: android-libcutils D: android-liblog)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  android-tools-adb{a}
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  android-sdk-platform-tools-common (R: adb)
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 230 kB of archives. After unpacking 386 kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Get: 1 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main i386 android-liblog i386 1:7.0.0+r1-2 [18.4 kB]
Get: 2 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main i386 android-libbase i386 1:7.0.0+r1-2 [21.0 kB]
Get: 3 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main i386 android-libcutils i386 1:7.0.0+r1-2 [25.5 kB]
Get: 4 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main i386 android-libadb i386 1:7.0.0+r1-2 [89.5 kB]
Get: 5 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main i386 adb i386 1:7.0.0+r1-2 [75.7 kB]
Fetched 230 kB in 1s (187 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 149860 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing android-tools-adb (5.1.1.r29-2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package android-liblog.
(Reading database ... 149853 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../android-liblog_1%3a7.0.0+r1-2_i386.deb ...
Unpacking android-liblog (1:7.0.0+r1-2) ...
...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9) ...

Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 0 (+0) upgradable, 54373 (-1) new.
# aptitude purge ~c
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  android-tools-adb{p} (adb B: android-tools-adb)
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
(Reading database ... 149882 files and directories currently installed.)
Purging configuration files for android-tools-adb (5.1.1.r29-2) ...

Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 0 (+0) upgradable, 54373 (+0) new.
#

Or maybe it doesn't have anything to do with obsolete vs. not obsolete.
Anyway, here is my apt-config dump:
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