Debian Bug report logs - #216768
[apt] apt mixes essential flag from all sources

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Package: apt; Maintainer for apt is APT Development Team <[email protected]>; Source for apt is src:apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Affects: aptitude

Reported by: Yann Dirson <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:33:12 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 261411, 544481, 553354, 565775, 594116, 610431

Found in versions 0.5.27, 0.5.4, apt/0.7.20.2+lenny1, apt/0.7.23.1, apt/0.8.10.1

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From: Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <[email protected]>
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David Kalnischkies (el 2009-11-02 a les 16:40:00 +0100) va dir::

> A user who mixed sources very likely mixes also packages.
> As a package doesn't need to depend on essential packages,
> apt tries to install in a dist(ribution)-upgrade ALL essential
> packages it can find in all sources to protect the user from
> dependency hell and as a bonus protect the user from doing something
> stupid: Removing a package which is/was/will be essential as it is
> maybe required by package on this system (who know how far your
> mixing goes, so better save than sorry as Ivan Vilata i Balaguer also
> said indirectly in his second message).

Umm, I forgot to issue the dist-upgrade command after setting up the pinning,
and that's why the new essential packages weren't installed.  However, running
``aptitude dist-upgrade`` doesn't install the new essential packages, while
``apt-get dist-upgrade`` does.  Do you think I should report this as a bug in
Aptitude?

Thanks for your comments,

::

  Ivan Vilata i Balaguer -- http://ivan.lovesgazpacho.net/

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