Debian Bug report logs - #598235
regression: synaptic no longer preserves "auto" flag on upgrade

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From: Ximin Luo <[email protected]>

To: Michael Vogt <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#598235: regression: synaptic no longer preserves "auto" flag on upgrade

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:22:17 +0100

reassign 598235 apt 0.8.0
fixed 598235 0.8.5
thanks

On 29/09/10 18:53, Michael Vogt wrote:
> I wonder if this is not actually a libapt problem with 0.8? Does it
> happen with apt-get as well?
> 

happens with apt-get 0.8, fixed in apt-get 0.8.5. aptitude is unaffected, which
is why i thought this was a synaptic issue. i guess this seems to be fixed. thanks!

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From: Ximin Luo <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: regression: synaptic no longer preserves "auto" flag on upgrade

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:51:26 +0100

Package: synaptic
Version: 0.70~pre1+b1
Severity: normal

Hi, since a recent version upgrade (around the time the "quick search" feature
was added, which btw should REALLY be renamed to "filter", but anyway) synaptic
will unset the "auto installed" flag for any package which gets upgraded.

I've marked this as grave because this is data loss, and it's also definitely a
regression. It makes it very inconvenient to try to keep your package database
as clean as possible, and impossible unless you take backups of it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages synaptic depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg4.10]    0.8.0            Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  apt-utils [libapt-inst1 0.8.0            APT utility programs
ii  hicolor-icon-theme      0.12-1           default fallback theme for FreeDes
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-6         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libept1                 1.0.3+b1         High-level library for managing De
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.4-8        GCC support library
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.4-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-1+b1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.1-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.4-8          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvte9                 1:0.24.3-1       Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxapian22             1.2.3-2          Search engine library
ii  libxml2                 2.7.7.dfsg-4     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages synaptic recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index         0.38            maintenance tools for a Xapian ind
ii  gksu                     2.0.2-3         graphical frontend to su
ii  libgnome2-perl           1.042-2         Perl interface to the GNOME librar
ii  rarian-compat            0.8.1-5         Documentation meta-data library (c
ii  software-properties-gtk  0.60.debian-1.1 manage the repositories that you i

Versions of packages synaptic suggests:
pn  deborphan                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  dwww                          1.11.3     Read all on-line documentation wit
ii  menu                          2.1.43     generates programs menu for all me

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