Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I have a package intalled that is not depended upon by any other intalled package, or recommended, but is suggested by another installed package (specifically, libterm-readline-gnu-perl). If I run aptitude markauto libterm-readline-gnu-perl it is not proposed for removal. The manual says this should be guided by Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant, which defaults to false. However, this does not seem to be the case, because if I run aptitude -o Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant=false markauto libterm-readline-gnu-perl it proposes to remove the package. I checked to make sure that my ~/.aptitude/config (pasted here) does not have any relevant options: aptitude ""; aptitude::UI ""; aptitude::UI::New-Package-Commands "true"; aptitude::UI::Package-Header-Format "%N %n #%B %u %o"; aptitude::UI::Package-Status-Format "%d"; aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M %p %t %15v %15V"; aptitude::UI::Default-Grouping "filter(missing),task,status"; aptitude::UI::Advance-On-Action "true"; aptitude::UI::Description-Visible-By-Default "true"; aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Download-Bar "false"; aptitude::UI::Pause-After-Download "false"; aptitude::UI::Prompt-On-Exit "true"; aptitude::UI::Exit-On-Last-Close "true"; aptitude::UI::Incremental-Search "true"; aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Prompts "true"; aptitude::UI::Menubar-Autohide "true"; aptitude::UI::HelpBar "false"; aptitude::UI::Auto-Show-Reasons "true"; aptitude::Pkg-Display-Limit ""; aptitude::Auto-Install "true"; aptitude::Auto-Fix-Broken "true"; aptitude::Delete-Unused "true"; aptitude::Purge-Unused "true"; aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern ""; aptitude::Auto-Upgrade "true"; aptitude::AutoClean-After-Update "true"; aptitude::Changelog-URL-Template "http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=%s"; aptitude::Display-Planned-Action "true"; aptitude::Forget-New-On-Update "false"; aptitude::Forget-New-On-Install "false"; aptitude::Warn-Not-Root "true"; aptitude::Log "/var/log/aptitude"; aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern ""; By the way, typos: the manual incorrectly refers to Apt::AutoRemove::Suggests-Important and Apt::AutoRemove::Recommends-Important in a few places (note the hyphens). Andrew -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.8 compiled at Jun 9 2012 10:02:58 Compiler: g++ 4.7.0 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.10 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffa3dff000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f1d155bd000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f1d1538d000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f1d15163000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f1d14f5e000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f1d14c5e000) libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.0.5.4.12 (0x00007f1d149bd000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f1d145d8000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f1d143c1000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f1d14115000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007f1d13efc000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f1d13ce0000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f1d139d8000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f1d13756000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f1d13540000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1d131b8000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f1d12fb5000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1d12db1000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f1d12ba0000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f1d1299b000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f1d12792000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1d15f4b000) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.8-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.7.2 ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-3.1 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.4 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.9 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.1-2 ii libncursesw5 5.9-10 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1 ii libstdc++6 4.7.1-2 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii libxapian22 1.2.12-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index 0.45 pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> ii sensible-utils 0.0.7 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.11 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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