[Aptitude-devel] Bug#960562: had to reinstall a package to avoid 'bullying'

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.12-3

Odd, today I had to reinstall a package to get aptitude to stop trying
to get rid of it.

# aptitude install fdisk
fdisk is already installed at the requested version (2.35.1-5)
fdisk is already installed at the requested version (2.35.1-5)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  fdisk{pu}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 514 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] ^C
# aptitude --verbose install fdisk
fdisk is already installed at the requested version (2.35.1-5)
fdisk is already installed at the requested version (2.35.1-5)
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 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/?] ^P^C
# aptitude install fdisk
fdisk is already installed at the requested version (2.35.1-5)
fdisk is already installed at the requested version (2.35.1-5)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  fdisk{pu}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 514 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
# aptitude install fdisk
fdisk is already installed at the requested version (2.35.1-5)
fdisk is already installed at the requested version (2.35.1-5)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  fdisk{pu}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 514 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
(Reading database ... 138185 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fdisk (2.35.1-5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...

Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 0 (+0) upgradable, 7531 (+0) new.
# aptitude install fdisk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fdisk
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/184 kB of archives. After unpacking 514 kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Selecting previously unselected package fdisk.
(Reading database ... 138172 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../fdisk_2.35.1-5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fdisk (2.35.1-5) ...
Setting up fdisk (2.35.1-5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...

Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 0 (+0) upgradable, 7531 (+0) new.
# aptitude install fdisk
fdisk is already installed at the requested version (2.35.1-5)
fdisk is already installed at the requested version (2.35.1-5)
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 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/?]