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) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org