Package: apt Version: 0.7.21 Severity: wishlist Thanks for all your work on APT. Here's a bug:
Current behavior: I have automatic installation of recommends enabled. When I install a package, like virtualbox or hdapsd, that recommends a '-modules' virtual package with multiple possibilities in it, my package manager pulls in the possibility that comes first in alphabetical order. This is usually a -486 modules package, even though I use a -686 kernel. So it wants to pull in a -486 modules package and a -486 kernel. Requested behavior: Please modify apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic so they make the right choice when pulling in "-modules" virtual packages: in my case, the -686 modules package. Screenshot: [...@pequeno ~]$ sudo apt-get install hdapsd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.26-2-486 tp-smapi-modules-2.6.26-2-486 Suggested packages: linux-doc-2.6.26 Recommended packages: tp-smapi-modules The following NEW packages will be installed: hdapsd linux-image-2.6.26-2-486 tp-smapi-modules-2.6.26-2-486 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 20.1MB of archives. After this operation, 60.0MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? What's wrong with screenshot: I don't want it to pull in a -486 modules package or a -486 kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org