Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:09:03AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > > > The "markauto" and "unmarkauto" commands work in reverse as specified in > > the manual, and in reverse as common sense would say they should. > > > > I have a manually installed package, libdirectfb-1.0-0: > > > > $ aptitude show libdirectfb-1.0-0 | egrep '^(Automatically|State)' > > State: installed > > Automatically installed: no > > I suspect this is a duplicate of #441891, which was introduced when I > merged support for the centralized apt database of auto-installed states > and should be fixed in the next release of aptitude.
Hmm. I see. > It should be easy enough to check whether that's the case: > > (1) What does "aptitude search '^libdirectfb-1.0-0$'" show? i A libdirectfb-1.0-0 - direct frame buffer graphics - shared libraries > (2) If you run aptitude without arguments and find "libdirectfb-1.0-0", is > there an "A" next to it? Yes, there is an A there. > (3) What do you get from > "grep -A1 '^Package: libdirectfb-1.0-0$' > /var/lib/apt/extended_states"? $ grep -A1 '^Package: libdirectfb-1.0-0$' /var/lib/apt/extended_states Package: libdirectfb-1.0-0 Auto-Installed: 1 > > Guys. Come on. Does anyone actually _test_ this stuff? > > As a matter of fact, not really. There is just barely enough of me to > write this program; if I tried to be a full QA department as well, nothing > at all would get done. So I try to test new code as I write it and do > minimal checks that code which might be expected to interact with it > still works, but I lack the manpower to systematically verify the > program and as a result bugs slip through, particularly in features that > I don't use very much. Sorry for the exabrupt. I didn't know the aptitude team was so underpowered, being such a central piece of Debian :-( Thanks for you efforts, and for the quick response. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/DXLWNGRJD34J "Hay quien adquiere la mala costumbre de ser infeliz" (M. A. Evans) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
