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Bug#498880: marked as done (apt-get installs unneeded extra packages)

Your message dated Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:04:09 +0200
with message-id <494F8239.4090807@gmail.com>
and subject line Re: Bug#498880: state of #498880
has caused the Debian Bug report #498880,
regarding apt-get installs unneeded extra packages
to be marked as done.

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498880: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498880
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Package: apt
Version: 0.7.14+b1
Severity: normal

Installing a package selects numerous additional packages for
installation, none of which are dependencies of the package to install.

This error occurs in a chroot environment after a fresh debootstrap
installation. I do not see how this could be the reason for this
problem, though.

Commands that created the chroot environment:
debootstrap lenny /mnt http://ftp.debian.org/debian
mount -tproc proc /mnt/proc
chroot /mnt

There is nothing left to do for apt:

dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/...
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppe...
||/ Name                          Version           Description
+++-=============================-=================-=================...
================

apt-get --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

But installing this package causes extra packages to be installed:

apt-get --simulate install mdadm
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates citadel-common citadel-mta citadel-server db4.6-util
  libcitadel1 libcurl3 libexpat1 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libical0
  libidn11 libkeyutils1 libkrb53 libldap-2.4-2 libpcre3 libsieve2-1
  libssh2-1 libxml2 openssl perl perl-doc perl-modules sgml-base
  shared-mime-info xml-core
Suggested packages:
  krb5-doc krb5-user libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl
  groff sgml-base-doc debhelper
Recommended packages:
  mail-transport-agent
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates citadel-common citadel-mta citadel-server db4.6-util
  libcitadel1 libcurl3 libexpat1 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libical0
  libidn11 libkeyutils1 libkrb53 libldap-2.4-2 libpcre3 libsieve2-1
  libssh2-1 libxml2 mdadm openssl perl perl-doc perl-modules sgml-base
  shared-mime-info xml-core
0 upgraded, 27 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
[...]

Checking the dependencies and installed packages yields no clue as to
what went wrong:

apt-cache show mdadm | grep -e ^Replaces -e ^Depends -e ^Recommends -e
^Conflicts
Replaces: mdctl
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), udev | makedev, debconf (>= 1.4.72), lsb-base
(>= 3.1-6)
Recommends: mail-transport-agent, module-init-tools
Conflicts: initramfs-tools (<< 0.65), mdctl (<< 0.7.2), raidtools2 (<<
1.00.3-12.1)

dpkg -l mdctl libc6 udev makedev debconf lsb-base mail-transport-agent
module-init-tools initramfs-tools mdctl raidtools2
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/...
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppe...
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-===================================...
ii  debconf        1.5.22         Debian configuration management system
ii  libc6          2.7-13         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base       3.2-20         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init script...
un  mail-transport <none>         (no description available)
ii  makedev        2.3.1-88       creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-to 3.4-1          tools for managing Linux kernel mod...
un  udev           <none>         (no description available)
No packages found matching mdctl.
No packages found matching initramfs-tools.
No packages found matching mdctl.
No packages found matching raidtools2.

-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
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::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
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";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";

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


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian lenny main

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring   2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the
Debian a
ii  libc6                    2.7-13          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.3.1-9       GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6               4.3.1-9         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  aptitude                      0.4.11.8-1 terminal-based package manager
pn  bzip2                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  dpkg-dev                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  lzma                          4.43-14    Compression method of 7z
format in

-- no debconf information

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Olaf Mandel wrote:
> Eugene V. Lyubimkin schrieb:
>> Please post the output of 'aptitude install mdadm -D'.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> this actually closes the bug-report: not a bug at all.
> 
> I was unaware of APT::Install-Recommends which defaults to true.
> And the citadel-mta is automatically selected for the Recommends entry
> of mail-transport-agent. I only looked at the Depends lines, never at
> the Recommends lines. Was the standard behavior of apt-get always to
> also install recommended items? I was under the impression, only
> aptitude does that...
Was not in past, but is since apt 0.7.7.


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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor

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