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

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le 16/03/18 à 11:44, Axel Beckert a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Laurent Bigonville wrote:
>> When doing aptitude safe-upgrade, the recommended package are not
>> installed
> Interesting point. I'd say this is on purpose. "safe-upgrade" is said
> to not update any packages which pull in additional packages.

Is that really the case?

I'm pretty sure that safe-upgrade is updating packages that pull new 
dependencies

>
> But this pulls in the question if a package should not be upgraded
> with safe-upgrade if it has a new Recommends compared to the installed
> version (and installing Recommends by default is not disabled).
>
> And I must admit, I don't know the "right" answer to this question.
>
> But to stay consistent with both (only upgrade packages which don't
> pull in new packages and install Recommends by default) it should
> probably not update packages with new Recommends (expect if installing
> Recommends is disabled in some way), even though this would reduce the
> amount of packages upgradable with safe-upgrade.
>
>> even when --with-recommends is passed.
> Hrm, I'd say, at least with an explizit --with-recommends it should at
> least _not_ upgrade packages with new Recommends to stay consistent.
>
> Then again, that would probably confuse users. Maybe abort and throw
> an error message that this command/option combination doesn't make
> sense?
>
>> Shouldn't they be installed by default?
> Yes, but this still doesn't answer the question how this can be
> combined with safe-upgrade at all.
>
> 		Regards, Axel