[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1082745: Bug#1082745: aptitude: information mismatch for package removal

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2024-11-08 00:50:14 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > The reformatted diff on the /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates file
> > just after the upgrade:
> […]
> >  Package: linux-image-6.10.12-amd64
> >  Architecture: amd64
> >  Unseen: yes
> >  State: 1
> > -Dselect-State: 0
> > +Dselect-State: 1
> >  Remove-Reason: 0
> > -Auto-New-Install: yes
> 
> For me this looks as if linux-image-6.10.12-amd64 is marked as to
> be installed automatically via dependency.
> 
> > and "apt install -f -s" outputs
> > 
> > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
> >   linux-headers-6.10.9-amd64  linux-headers-6.10.9-common  linux-image-6.10.9-amd64  linux-kbuild-6.10.9
> 
> Yes, this tells us that linux-image-6.10.9-amd64 was marked as
> automatically installed, too.

Yes, they had been installed as dependencies of linux-image-amd64
(linux-image-6.10.9-amd64 first, and linux-image-6.10.12-amd64
with some upgrade of linux-image-amd64).

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