Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.15.9-6
Severity: normal

aptitude ignores my install request without giving a reason (which would be
that it needs to uninstall argouml)

# aptitude install libi18n-java
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  libi18n-java libnspr4 libnss3 mozilla mozilla-browser
  mozilla-dom-inspector mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
# apt-get install libi18n-java
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  argouml
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libi18n-java
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 110kB of archives.
After unpacking 2634kB disk space will be freed.
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Aptitude should behave like apt-get does in this situation.

libi18n-java:
  Installed: 0.1.2.0.1-1
  Candidate: 0.1.3a-1
  Version table:
     0.1.3a-1 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 0.1.2.0.1-1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
argouml:
  Installed: 0.14-7
  Candidate: 0.14-7
  Version table:
 *** 0.14-7 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
(which has a dependency on libi18n-java (<< 0.1.3) )

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc4
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.41     Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.2-2  GCC support library
ii  libncurses5                   5.4-9      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-1.2-5c2             1.2.5-5    type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.2-2    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none>     (no description available)

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