The bug has been reported for Intrepid, which is unsupported since April 30 2010. Hence I will mark this bug as won't fix. If the issue persists in a newer release of Ubuntu, please change the bug status and add a comment stating so.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284995 Title: APT doesn't installs Recommends dependencies during upgrades -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs