Bug#569353: apt-get proposes to autoremove a package that will be upgraded
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.25.3
Severity: normal
The following is not consistent:
# apt-get install -s serna
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
python-sip4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
python-qt4 python-sip python-sip4
Suggested packages:
python-qt4-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
python-sip
The following packages will be upgraded:
python-qt4 python-sip4 serna
3 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Inst serna [0.svn270-1] (0.svn270-2 Debian:unstable) []
Inst python-qt4 [4.6-1] (4.7-2 Debian:unstable) []
Inst python-sip4 [4.9-1+b1] (4.10-2 Debian:unstable) []
Inst python-sip (4.10-2 Debian:unstable)
Conf python-sip (4.10-2 Debian:unstable)
Conf python-qt4 (4.7-2 Debian:unstable)
Conf serna (0.svn270-2 Debian:unstable)
Conf python-sip4 (4.10-2 Debian:unstable)
Why proposing to autoremove python-sip4 while it needs to be upgraded?
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image.*";
APT::Cache-Limit "33554432";
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::netrc "auth.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Media "";
Dir::Media::MountPath "/media/apt";
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/bin/apt-listchanges --apt";
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::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::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";
Aptitude "";
Aptitude::UI "";
Aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M %p %Z %24v %24V";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20090413-22:20]/ lenny main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 _Lenny_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20090413-22:20]/ lenny main
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
# Local repository
# update with "dpkg-scanpackages . | bzip2 -9c > Packages.bz2" from it.
deb file:///var/local/apt ./
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.3-2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.3-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
ii apt-doc 0.7.25.3 Documentation for APT
ii aptitude 0.6.1.5-2 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.93.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
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