On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:09:03AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
>
> The "markauto" and "unmarkauto" commands work in reverse as specified in
> the manual, and in reverse as common sense would say they should.
>
> I have a manually installed package, libdirectfb-1.0-0:
>
> $ aptitude show libdirectfb-1.0-0 | egrep '^(Automatically|State)'
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
I suspect this is a duplicate of #441891, which was introduced when I
merged support for the centralized apt database of auto-installed states
and should be fixed in the next release of aptitude.
It should be easy enough to check whether that's the case:
(1) What does "aptitude search '^libdirectfb-1.0-0$'" show?
(2) If you run aptitude without arguments and find "libdirectfb-1.0-0", is
there an "A" next to it?
(3) What do you get from
"grep -A1 '^Package: libdirectfb-1.0-0$' /var/lib/apt/extended_states"?
> Guys. Come on. Does anyone actually _test_ this stuff?
As a matter of fact, not really. There is just barely enough of me to
write this program; if I tried to be a full QA department as well, nothing
at all would get done. So I try to test new code as I write it and do
minimal checks that code which might be expected to interact with it
still works, but I lack the manpower to systematically verify the
program and as a result bugs slip through, particularly in features that
I don't use very much. Such is life in free software; our QA department
is users like yourself who report bugs. If you don't like this, please
return the program to the store from which you bought it for a full refund.
Daniel
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