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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]