Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

[Christoph Groth <cwg@falma.de>]

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

> On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:
>
>> Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below.  I do
>> not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also
>> does not seem to see one.  But it still wants to install the package.
>> Why?
>
> Probably because texpower (which is currently installed) depends on it,
> although texpower itself is being removed as unused:
>
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>   libgegl-0.1-0{u} (D: gimp)  
>>   texpower{u} (R: texlive-latex-extra, R: texpower-manual)  
>>   texpower-manual{u} (R: texpower)  
>
> This seems to be a bug in the resolver.  Removing texpower before the
> upgrade should work around it.

This is it!  It indeed seems to be a bug: the currently installed
texpower does not depend on texlive-fonts-extra, but the newer versions
do.  However, texpower will be removed.

Should I report this with aptitude or with apt?

Thanks,
Christoph