Bug#243943: Suggested packages when installing uses wrong versions of packages to install

[Ross Burton <ross@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.24
Severity: minor

When I did "apt-get -t experimental install gnome-session" I was told that
gmc is a Suggested package.  I thought this was a little strange as gmc is
not part of GNOME 2, only GNOME 1, so I looked to see where that suggest was
coming from.  Turns out it is only listed as a Suggests on gnome-session 1.4
which is on a Woody CD I have in my sources.list, and is not in the
Suggests list for gnome-session 2.6 which I was actually installing from
experimental.


-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Clean-Installed "off";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/localepurge ] && [ $(ps w -p $PPID | grep -c remove) != 1 ]; then /usr/sbin/localepurge; else exit 0; fi";

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.4-0pre1  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.3-6    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- no debconf information