Bug#693144: aptitude should honour explicit installation request in connection with markauto package

2012-11-14 Thread Elmar S. Heeb
Hello On 11/14/2012 03:02 AM, Daniel Hartwig wrote: Note that you can not request of aptitude that a package “remains installed”. You can only request to install, remove, mark manual (hint!), etc.. At best, the closest option is “keep”, however, that will not work in the example you

Bug#693144: aptitude should honour explicit installation request in connection with markauto package

2012-11-14 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 14 November 2012 18:03, Elmar S. Heeb el...@heebs.ch wrote: BTW, I am fine with either behaviour but I would strongly vote for a consistent policy between apt and aptitude. In future versions aptitude will adopt apt-get's behaviour. However +m is not a supported action (as opposed to +M).

Bug#693144: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#693144: aptitude should honour explicit installation request in connection with markauto package

2012-11-14 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Daniel Hartwig wrote: On 14 November 2012 18:03, Elmar S. Heeb el...@heebs.ch wrote: BTW, I am fine with either behaviour but I would strongly vote for a consistent policy between apt and aptitude. In future versions aptitude will adopt apt-get's behaviour. Daniel Hartwig wrote: In

Bug#693144: Bug#693144: aptitude should honour explicit installation request in connection with markauto package

2012-11-14 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 14 November 2012 20:24, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: Daniel Hartwig wrote: and it does not cause serious problems. I wouldn't be so sure here, as it changes the behaviour on the commandline subtly but severely if you rely on the current behaviour that it doesn't change the markauto

Bug#693144: aptitude should honour explicit installation request in connection with markauto package

2012-11-13 Thread Elmar S. Heeb
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Severity: normal Hi If I deinstall a package aptitude will correctly deinstall all dependencies which are markauto and not required by any other package. However, if I explicitly request that such a dependent package remains installed aptitude will still

Bug#693144: aptitude should honour explicit installation request in connection with markauto package

2012-11-13 Thread Daniel Hartwig
Control: tags -1 + confirmed [I am sure this is already reported but do not have time to track down clones right now.] Hello On 13 November 2012 23:36, Elmar S. Heeb el...@heebs.ch wrote: If I deinstall a package aptitude will correctly deinstall all dependencies which are markauto and not