Bug#475006: aptitude: Package redirection via provides doesn't pull in dependencies automatically
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.11
Severity: normal
To reproduce:
aptitude install haskell-compiler
This goes into dependency resolution mode, where it requests to first
install the dependencies, but skipping the "mother" package ghc6.
ghc6 provides haskell-compiler and the correct response should be to
offer to install ghc6 and its dependencies.
The correct behavior occurs when requesting to install ghc6 directly.
There should be no difference between requesting ghc6 or "an alias" like
haskell-compiler.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.07.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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