[Aptitude-devel] Bug#893082: Recommended packages not installed with safe-upgrade

[Laurent Bigonville]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.10-6
Severity: normal

Hi,

When doing aptitude safe-upgrade, the recommended package are not
installed even when --with-recommends is passed.

Shouldn't they be installed by default?

Regards,

Laurent Bigonville

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.10
Compiler: g++ 7.2.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.2
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.1.20180127
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.2

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff60b7c000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f351f23d000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f351f00d000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f351ede3000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f351ebdc000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f351e8e4000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f351e5d9000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f351e3c1000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f351e1a8000)
	libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f351dfa4000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f351db99000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f351d97b000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f351d5f6000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f351d263000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f351d04b000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f351cc91000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f351ca7a000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f351c860000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f351c650000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f351c42a000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f351c218000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f351bffa000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f351fc0c000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f351bdf6000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f351bbee000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f351b9e7000)

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

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Permissive - Policy name: refpolicy

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.8.10-6
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.6~beta1
ii  libboost-filesystem1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-5
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0   1.62.0+dfsg-5
ii  libboost-system1.62.0      1.62.0+dfsg-5
ii  libc6                      2.27-2
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-7
ii  libgcc1                    1:8-20180312-2
ii  libncursesw5               6.1-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.10.0-2
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.22.0-1
ii  libstdc++6                 8-20180312-2
ii  libtinfo5                  6.1-1
ii  libxapian30                1.4.5-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-12
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.12

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.8.10-6
pn  debtags                         <none>
ii  tasksel                         3.43

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