I can confirm this on gutsy (amd64) For example: $ aptitude search ~neukleides i A eukleides - Euclidean geometry drawing language i xeukleides - System for drawing and viewing Euclidean geometry figures $ aptitude why eukleides i xeukleides Depends eukleides $ aptitude show ~neukleides Package: eukleides State: installed Automatically installed: no [...] Package: xeukleides State: installed Automatically installed: yes
$aptitude --version aptitude 0.4.6.1 compiled at Sep 15 2007 09:21:46 Compiler: g++ 4.1.3 20070831 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu1) NCurses version: 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.0.17 -- [gutsy] aptitude shows opposite value for "Automatically installed" field https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173466 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs