Control: reassign -1 aptitude-doc-en 0.6.2.1-2 Control: retitle -1 aptitude-doc-en: Apt::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant really has no hyphen Control: severity -1 normal Control: user aptitude-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Control: usertags -1 - auto-installed
Hello There are two issues at play here: incorrectly documented option names and clearing the auto-installed flag when a package is marked for removal. Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.net> wrote: > It seems that Apt::AutoRemove::Recommends-Important and > Apt::AutoRemove::Suggests-Important do not work. The aptitude user's manual incorrectly refers to those names when they should be without the hyphen: RecommendsImportant and SuggestsImportant. Based on your follow-up: > It seems that when using the deprecated options (which should be > synonyms according to the manual): > aptitude::Keep-Recommends "true"; > aptitude::Keep-Suggests "true"; > that the issue described in this bug happens less often.... I'd say that using the correct names would have been better as well. > > I've observed many many different cases, where aptitude _clears_ > the "A" flag (and wants to remove the respective packages, if that > is configured) even though there are still non-A-packages which > suggest or recommend the respective packages. > I've even thought that I found some packages where the flag > was deleted in the depend-case, but I cannot find these examples > right now. > > I've set the priority to important, as this bug means more or less > loss of data, namely the information which packages were > automatically installed (the A flag). What is happening is that aptitude marks them for removal, which also clears the auto-installed flag (“A”). This flag is not restored if you subsequently cancel the removal. See [1] and [2] which are more-or-less the same thing (and a fix to those will correct the behaviour you see here). Repurposing this report to be specifically about the incorrect documentation. Suggest you subscribe to either of the other reports to stay updated on that issue. Regards [1] http://bugs.debian.org/508428 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/537735 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
