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Re: Bug#571304: apt keeps trying to add packages that not selected for installation



reassign 571304 apt
thanks

On Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2010, markhobley@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: normal
>
> I am using Debian testing. Whenever, I try to add or remove a package, I
> keep getting a message that the following packages will be installed:
>
> The following NEW packages will be installed
>   aptitude-doc-en geoip-database libclass-accessor-perl libfont-afm-perl
>   libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-template-perl libio-string-perl
>   libmailtools-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl libsub-name-perl
> liburi-perl libxml-namespacesupport-perl
>
> If I accept installation of these, I then get a message that these packages
> are not needed, and I have the option to autoremove them again.
>
> This problem is recursive.
>
> The problem does not occur on Debian Etch (stable), so I suspect that
> changes implemented in testing are causing this.
>
> Mark.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i386)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486
> Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


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