That "apt-get upgrade" behaves this way as it wants to be VERY careful and breaking a recommendation is not a safe operation. Consider situations in which A=1 and B=1 are installed and A recommends B >= 1. Now A=2 enters the archive with B >=2 as recommendation. Upgrading A now would mean we break the recommendation which might very well be an important feature of A which from a user point of view just disappeared after an operation which is considered to be safe and might be even done fully automated! In the case of a new recommends it might be safe, but it might as well be that a package was split or an old feature now needs an addition recommends to work properly …
For "install" and "dist-upgrade" a more visible indication of which recommendations are going down the drain if you apply this solution would indeed be good though (I think aptitude does it) Currently you only get a report about recommends which are not satisfied by this install, not which are going to be broken (on already installed packages). A mode to get the same behavior into "dist-upgrade" and co would be interesting, too – but not as default I guess – as their behavior is defined differently. (If I recall correctly the implementation in "upgrade" is kinda hacky, so working on it wouldn't hurt either way) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xdg-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1123710 Title: wine1.4:i386 not installable on raring amd64 Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “gnome-exe-thumbnailer” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “ttf-droid” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “ttf-liberation” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ttf-umefont” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “ttf-unfonts-core” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ttf-wqy-microhei” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “wine1.4” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “winetricks” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “xdg-utils” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in Debian GNU/Linux: Fix Released Bug description: If a user wants 32-bit only wine, a reasonable way to get it would be to install wine1.4:i386. However, this is not possible on amd64. Currently apt spews this complaint: wine1.4:i386 : Depends: wine1.4-i386:i386 (= 1.4.1-0ubuntu4) Recommends: gnome-exe-thumbnailer:i386 but it is not installable or kde-runtime:i386 but it is not going to be installed Recommends: ttf-droid:i386 but it is not installable Recommends: ttf-liberation:i386 but it is not installable Recommends: ttf-umefont:i386 but it is not installable Recommends: ttf-unfonts-core:i386 but it is not installable Recommends: ttf-wqy-microhei:i386 but it is not installable Recommends: winetricks:i386 but it is not going to be installed Recommends: xdg-utils:i386 but it is not installable gnome-exe-thumbnailer, xdg-utils, and the fonts are arch: all and should be marked multiarch:foreign to indicate that it is ok to install them for the nonnative wine1.4 (they are cross-arch shell scripts). winetricks is currently arch i386 and amd64 and should probably be marked arch: all (especially for upcoming arm wine). apt will then freak out about conflicts and give up. apt-get --no- install-recommends wine1.4:i386, however, will actually complete. I'm not sure this is correct behavior for apt, as in principle it should be able to figure out that it can succeed with the command by omitting recommended packages. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1123710/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
