Bug#517202: apt-get: installs an unrequested package and suggest removing it.
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2
Severity: minor
The strange behaviour is shown below:
# apt-get remove aqbanking-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
libqbanking6
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libqbanking6
The following packages will be REMOVED:
aqbanking-tools libaqbanking20-plugins libaqbanking20-plugins-qt
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libqbanking6
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 313 not upgraded.
Need to get 238kB of archives.
After this operation, 737kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
apt-get suggest removing the package "libqbanking6", but the package is
not installed, apt-get is installing it for unknown reasons! It is not
required by any installed package.
If one asks to remove it too:
# apt-get remove aqbanking-tools libqbanking6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libqbanking6 is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
aqbanking-tools libaqbanking20-plugins libaqbanking20-plugins-qt
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 313 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1483kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
apt-get works smoothly.
Versions are:
# dpkg -l aqbanking-tools libaqbanking20-plugins libaqbanking20-plugins-qt
[...]
ii aqbanking-tool 3.7.2-1 basic command line homebanking utilities
ii libaqbanking20 3.7.2-1 plugins needed by libaqbanking20
ii libaqbanking20 3.7.2-1 plugins needed by libaqbanking20
Regards,
Marco
-- Package-specific info:
-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-tm290
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the
Debian a
ii libc6 2.9-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting
file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z
format in
pn python-apt <none> (no description available)
ii synaptic 0.62.5 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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