Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.4-1 Severity: normal
When I tried to upgrade my system today, the new ncurses-base depends on
a newer version of libncurses5 than is in unstable (on amd64). As a
consequence, the dependency resolver offers to keep ncurses-base at its
current version. The next option is to remove ncurses-base; however,
ncurses-base is an essential package. If I select this resolution,
aptitude seems quite happy to remove ncurses-base. (I did stop it
before it actually attempted to invoke dpkg.)
In no event should aptitude remove an essential package without getting
the user's consent. (As a side issue, it probably shouldn't suggest
removing an essential package, either, but I don't care that much.)
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.4 compiled at Jun 8 2008 01:39:27
Compiler: g++ 4.3.1 20080523 (prerelease)
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 5.6.20080531
cwidget version: 0.5.11
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff5b7ff000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0x00007ff353303000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007ff3530ba000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007ff352eb5000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007ff352bba000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007ff352942000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007ff3525ba000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007ff3523a3000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ff352187000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ff351e7b000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff351bf8000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ff3519e1000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff35168d000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ff35148a000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ff351286000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff3535d2000)
Terminal: gnome-256color
$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 2.6.26-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.14 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.11-1 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.18 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080531-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.5-1 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
-- no debconf information
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