On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 08:59:28PM -0500, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > Hi, > > The package 'libx264-78' is installed on my (Sid) system: > > ~# aptitude why libx264-78 > i gnome-mplayer Depends mplayer (>= 1.0~) | mplayer-nogui (>= 1.0~) > i A mplayer Depends libx264-78 (>= 1:0.svn20091101) > > Aptitude shows it in the 'Obsolete and Locally Created Packages' > section. When I try to upgrade the system, aptitude (initially) > suggests that I keep this package, but whenever I accept the > suggestion, the package's status of 'automatically installed' goes > away, and it becomes marked as manually installed (which is certainly > not what I want, since I have no idea what the thing is - I just want > mplayer to be happy).
Before you enter the resolver, is libx264-78 being removed as unused? After you accept its suggestion, is libx264-78 still required by the version of mplayer being installed? > This doesn't seem to happen to most packages - > does this have anything to do with the fact that it's 'obsolete' (i.e., > currently not available in the archives)? Is this a bug? It sounds like a bug. The resolver shouldn't touch automatic flags except to set them to "true" (for new installs). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
