[Bug 477468] Re: After upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10, Aptitude is not usable - because it tries each time to remove many programs with no apparent reason (but all is ok in apt-get)

[Daniel Hartwig]

limcore wrote:
> Ok, the bug seems to be because I just installed "Ubuntu"
> and then added krusader kmail and so on;

Yes, and those packages (krusader, kmail) are *not* in the listing of
packages for removal you posted.  So this is not a bug with aptitude.

> So I do not have kubuntu-desktop package.
> And because kde meta package was droped.

Sounds more like the culprit.


** Package changed: aptitude (Ubuntu) => ubuntu

** Summary changed:

- After upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10, Aptitude is not usable - because it tries each time to remove many programs with no apparent reason (but all is ok in apt-get)
+ After upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10, kde packages are removed

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Title:
  After upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10, kde packages are removed

Status in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: aptitude

  After upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 ubuntu,
  aptitude is unusable for some users!

  
  When I use aptitude for any operation, then it wants to remove many of my applications each time.
  I can not find any way so far to tell aptitude to NOT uninstall all this applications that I use (for example: kalarm, kdepim, and around 50 more).

  I did NOT uninstall manually kde or something like that recently, this
  all started from the 9.04->9.10 update.

  This does not happen when I use synaptic or apt-get.

  When I use apt-get then the situation is explained "The following
  packages were automatically installed and are no longer required".

  What is the problem:
    1. I would expect aptitude to also just offer to remove this packages, not force it on me. To behave like apt-get
    2. Why are so many applications selected? This are not just some libraries or something, this are applications that I use.
    3. I thought upgrader (to 9.10) already removed unneeded stuff (for example "quiteinsane" was removed, since it is obsolite application - not maintained in debian)

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Nov  7 15:24:58 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu6
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

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