Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.6.1-1 Severity: important
Maybe this is part of a bigger picture but anyway: I installed using command line aptitude (aptitude install ...) the java-gcj-compat-plugin package. Then: mordor:~# aptitude show java-gcj-compat-plugin Package: java-gcj-compat-plugin State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 1.0.76-5 Priority: optional Section: interpreters Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncompressed Size: 98.3k Depends: java-gcj-compat (= 1.0.76-5), gappletviewer-4.2 Description: Web browser plugin to execute Java (tm) applets using gij gcjwebplugin is a little web browser plugin to execute Java (tm) applets. It is targeted for Mozilla and compatible browsers that support the NPAPI. The package unconditionally uses the gij runtime. So, aptitude show reports that the package was automatically installed which obviously is wrong. But both aptitude using the UI, and aptitude search report the package as NOT automatically installed: mordor:~# aptitude search java-gcj-compat-plugin i java-gcj-compat-plugin - Web browser plugin to execute Java (tm) applets using gij mordor:~# (the A flag is (correctly) missing). -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20070908-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
