Bug#517202: apt: Same behaviour with different packages...
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.21
Followup-For: Bug #517202
Maybe I understand how the problem emerge. Here is another example:
I try to remove a package, and apt-get installs the NEW package libbluetooth3
and suggest removing it...
# apt-get --purge remove openbios-ppc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libbluetooth3
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
bochsbios libbluetooth3 libpulse0
Suggested packages:
pulseaudio
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openbios-ppc* qemu*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libbluetooth3
The following packages will be upgraded:
bochsbios libpulse0
2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1161 not upgraded.
Need to get 552kB of archives.
After this operation, 44.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
Removing openbios-ppc, apt also has to remove qemu. But qemu is not up-to-date,
so apt tries to update qemu. This operation requires updating bochsbios and
libpulse0, and installing libbluetooth3. But also the last version of qemu
depend on openbios-ppc, it must be removed... Nevertheless apt keeps on
updating and installing the related but unneeded packages.
One more question arises... If I try to update qemu, apt updates and installs packages as above, and suggest removing libbluetooth2!
# apt-get install qemu
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libbluetooth2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
bochsbios libbluetooth3 libpulse0
Suggested packages:
pulseaudio samba
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libbluetooth3
The following packages will be upgraded:
bochsbios libpulse0 qemu
3 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1162 not upgraded.
This means that BOTH libbluetooth2 and the newly installed libbluetooth3 should
be auto-removed after removing openbios-ppc, isn't it?
Version of related installed packages are:
ii bochsbios 2.3.7-1 BIOS for the Bochs emulator
ii libpulse0 0.9.14-2 PulseAudio client libraries
ii openbios-ppc 1.0-2 PowerPC Open Firmware
ii qemu 0.10.2-2 fast processor emulator
Best regards,
Marco
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-- 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/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:::: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/localepurge ] && [ $(ps w -p $PPID | grep -c remove) != 1 ]; then /usr/sbin/localepurge; else exit 0; fi";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#sid
#deb http://debian.rutgers.edu/ unstable main
deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ unstable main
#deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ unstable main
#sid non free
deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ unstable contrib non-free
#videolan
##deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
#security
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
#vari
#blackdown
deb ftp://ftp.easynet.be/blackdown/debian/ sid main non-free
#dbxml
#deb http://www.lesdeveloppementsdurables.org/debian/ testing dbxml
#marillat
deb http://debian-mirrors.sdinet.de/debian-multimedia sid main
#deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main
#kismet
##deb http://unbolted.llarian.net/debian/ kismet-devel/
#cinelerra
##deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/sid/ ./
deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ testing main
###deb-src http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ testing main
#deb http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian/ testing main
##deb-src http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian/ testing main
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main
#deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-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 1:4.4.0-4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1+b1 terminal-based package manager
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 0.62.7 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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