Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.4-1.2
Severity: normal

Take the following situation (available as of today in unstable):

timidity Recommends timidity-daemon
timidity-daemon Depend on timidity

In the graphical user interface, marking timidity for installation
(doesn't matter if directly or via another package) causes both packages
to be marked for installation. Marking timidity as automatically
installed and removing all reverse-deps causes both timidity-daemon and
timidity to stay installed, because of the circular depends/recommends.

Aptitude should probably try to detect these cases and remove them too.

-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.4 compiled at Oct 29 2011 20:08:13
Compiler: g++ 4.6.2
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.10.1
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.9
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.10.1
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff40bff000)
        /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc/memcpy-preload.so (0x00007ff411da7000)
        libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0x00007ff411a70000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 
(0x00007ff411841000)
        libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 
(0x00007ff411619000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007ff411414000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007ff41110b000)
        libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007ff410eaf000)
        libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007ff410ab2000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007ff41089a000)
        libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007ff4105f7000)
        libboost_iostreams.so.1.46.1 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.46.1 
(0x00007ff4103de000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 
(0x00007ff4101c1000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 
(0x00007ff40febd000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff40fc3b000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 
(0x00007ff40fa24000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff40f6a0000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ff40f49d000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ff40f298000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007ff40f094000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 
(0x00007ff40ee83000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007ff40ec7b000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff411fab000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:

aptitude linkage:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg4.10]      0.8.15.9
ii  libboost-iostreams1.46.1  1.46.1-7+b1
ii  libc6                     2.13-23
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.1
ii  libept1                   1.0.5
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.6.2-9
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-4
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.9-1.1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.9-2
ii  libstdc++6                4.6.2-9
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-4
ii  libxapian22               1.2.8-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.44
ii  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.6

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  1.7.11
ii  tasksel  3.07

-- no debconf information



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