Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.3-3.2
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

See:

=====
# aptitude install transmission-cli
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  transmission-cli{b} 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 378 kB of archives. After unpacking 811 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  transmission-cli: Depends: transmission-common (= 2.03-2) but 2.11-1 is 
installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     transmission-cli [Not Installed]                   



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Install the following packages:           
1)     transmission-cli [2.11-1 (experimental)]



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
=====

The first option is to keep the current version (to not install the
package); it's necessary to ask for the next solution to get what I
want.

=====
# apt-cache policy transmission-cli
transmission-cli:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.03-2
  Version table:
     2.11-1 0
        100 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main i386 Packages
     2.03-2 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
=====

While I know that the install candidate is 2.03-2 (and aptitude will try
to install it), aptitude should prefer to install the new package at
experimental. The first logical solution seems to be "install the
version from experimental" (since it already has all the dependencies
installed and it has been asked to install it) instead not installing the
desired package.

Wishlist severity since it's a suggestion for this kind of possible
improvement :-)

Thank you!

Best regards,
Nelson

-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.3 compiled at Oct 18 2010 22:11:25
Compiler: g++ 4.4.5
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.10.1
  NCurses version 5.7
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20100313
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.10.1
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb775c000)
        libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x47e9c000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x4a193000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x483c9000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x48305000)
        libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x477a6000)
        libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0x475a0000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4a04b000)
        libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x494f8000)
        libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 
(0x47ff3000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0x4a030000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x4802a000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0x4a008000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x47e7c000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x49eba000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0x4b0b9000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0x4a002000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x47c0a000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x4b343000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0x4a061000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x49e9b000)
Terminal: rxvt-unicode
$DISPLAY not set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:

aptitude linkage:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36.naoliv1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg4.10]    0.8.10           Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libboost-iostreams1.42. 1.42.0-4         Boost.Iostreams Library
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcwidget3             0.5.16-3         high-level terminal interface libr
ii  libept1                 1.0.4            High-level library for managing De
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-10       GCC support library
ii  libncursesw5            5.7+20100313-4   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a      2.2.4.2-1        type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libsqlite3-0            3.7.4-2          SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.5-10         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libxapian22             1.2.4-1          Search engine library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index              0.41       maintenance and search tools for a
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none>     (no description available)
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2.1  parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  sensible-utils                0.0.6      Utilities for sensible alternative

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  tasksel                       <none>     (no description available)

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