Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.2-1
Severity: normal

The 'why' command doesn't work when package is automatically installed.

Example:

$ aptitude why laptop-detect
The package "laptop-detect" is manually installed.

$ sudo aptitude remove laptop-detect
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following packages are BROKEN:
        tasksel-data 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
        laptop-detect 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 684 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 53.2kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
        tasksel-data: Depends: laptop-detect but it is not installable
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
        tasksel
        tasksel-data

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
        xserver-xorg recommends laptop-detect
Score is -20



-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.2 compiled at Apr 12 2008 15:24:40
Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-3)
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.6.0
  NCurses version 5.6
  libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
  Ept support enabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.6.20071124
  cwidget version: 0.5.11
  Apt version: 4.6.0
        libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 
(0x00002aaaef51a000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00002aaaef7e8000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00002aaaefa31000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00002aaaefb36000)
        libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00002aaaefe32000)
        libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00002aaaf00ae000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00002aaaf0433000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002aaaf064b000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00002aaaf0866000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00002aaaf0b72000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaf0df4000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaf100b000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00002aaaf1369000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaf156d000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaef2fc000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:

aptitude linkage:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.11            Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                  2.7-4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcwidget3            0.5.11-1          high-level terminal interface libr
ii  libept0                0.5.17            High-level library for managing De
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.0-1         GCC support library
ii  libncursesw5           5.6+20071124-1    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a     2.0.17-2          type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.0-1           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libxapian15            1.0.4-1           Search engine library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none>     (no description available)
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-1    parse Debian changelogs and output

-- no debconf information



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