[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1013075: aptitude: "aptitude why" outputs a chain with a package that is not installed

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Thu Jun 16 14:15:11 BST 2022


Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-4
Severity: normal

zira:~> aptitude why gobject-introspection
i   libglib2.0-dev         Suggests libgirepository1.0-dev (>= 1.62)     
p   libgirepository1.0-dev Depends  gobject-introspection (= 1.72.0-1+b1)

while libgirepository1.0-dev isn't installed. So this doesn't give an
explanation of why gobject-introspection is automatically installed.

FYI, this is after

Start-Date: 2022-06-16  14:53:32
Commandline: apt install dh-sequence-gir gtk-doc-tools libgirepository1.0-dev libnss3-dev libglib2.0-doc libcairo2-doc
Install: libglib2.0-doc:amd64 (2.72.2-2), libnspr4-dev:amd64 (2:4.34-1, automatic), libnss3-dev:amd64 (2:3.79-1), python3-mako:amd64 (1.1.3+ds1-3, automatic), gobject-introspection:amd64 (1.72.0-1+b1), docbook:amd64 (4.5-10, automatic), python3-markdown:amd64 (3.3.7-1, automatic), gtk-doc-tools:amd64 (1.33.2-1), libcairo2-doc:amd64 (1.16.0-5), libgirepository1.0-dev:amd64 (1.72.0-1+b1), docbook-to-man:amd64 (1:2.0.0-45, automatic)
End-Date: 2022-06-16  14:53:36

Start-Date: 2022-06-16  15:01:07
Commandline: apt remove --purge dh-sequence-gir gtk-doc-tools libgirepository1.0-dev libnss3-dev libglib2.0-doc libcairo2-doc docbook-to-man libnspr4-dev
Purge: libglib2.0-doc:amd64 (2.72.2-2), libnspr4-dev:amd64 (2:4.34-1), libnss3-dev:amd64 (2:3.79-1), gtk-doc-tools:amd64 (1.33.2-1), libcairo2-doc:amd64 (1.16.0-5), libgirepository1.0-dev:amd64 (1.72.0-1+b1), docbook-to-man:amd64 (1:2.0.0-45)
End-Date: 2022-06-16  15:01:09

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.13
Compiler: g++ 11.3.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 6.0.0
  NCurses version 6.3
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.4
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.3.20220423
  cwidget version: 0.5.18
  Apt version: 6.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe39dfe000)
	libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 (0x00007faba6b3b000)
	libapt-pkg.so.6.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.6.0 (0x00007faba6946000)
	libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007faba690b000)
	libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007faba68d9000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007faba68d0000)
	libcwidget.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4 (0x00007faba67c8000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007faba666c000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 (0x00007faba6653000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007faba6430000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007faba640f000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007faba61f4000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007faba60b0000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007faba608e000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007faba5eb5000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007faba5eaf000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007faba5e95000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007faba5e78000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007faba5e65000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007faba5e3b000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007faba5e18000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007faba5d5f000)
	libudev.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007faba5d35000)
	libsystemd.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007faba5c62000)
	libgcrypt.so.20 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007faba5b1b000)
	libxxhash.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxxhash.so.0 (0x00007faba5b04000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007faba6f79000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007faba5afa000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007faba5af1000)
	libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007faba5ae6000)
	libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007faba5abb000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.8.13-4
ii  libapt-pkg6.0             2.5.0
ii  libboost-iostreams1.74.0  1.74.0-16
ii  libc6                     2.33-7
ii  libcwidget4               0.5.18-5
ii  libgcc-s1                 12.1.0-2
ii  libncursesw6              6.3+20220423-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.10.4-2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.38.5-1
ii  libstdc++6                12.1.0-2
ii  libtinfo6                 6.3+20220423-2
ii  libxapian30               1.4.18-4

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libdpkg-perl    1.21.8
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.17

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.53
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-4
pn  debtags                         <none>
ii  tasksel                         3.69+rebuild

-- no debconf information

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