[Aptitude-devel] Bug#663019: Bug#663019: "aptitude purge <package>" recursively REMOVES BUT DOES NOT PURGE reverse dependencies either

[Daniel Hartwig]

merge 568876 663019
thanks

Hi

Thanks for another detailed report.  Enough information to see what is
going on and what the issues are.

I have found the two points you mention already in the BTS.  Merging
this report with the first of those as it appears you consider that
the main issue.

No ETA on when these will be tidied up but I agree that "apt-get purge
foo" and "aptitude purge foo" having different semantics here is
problematic.


On 8 March 2012 09:57,  <georgiytreyvus at riseup.net> wrote:
>
> Notice that reverse dependency byobu has no purge marking next to the a.
>

Already reported as #568876.

> Now after a reinstall apt-get does the correct job when purging:
>

> And yet more confirmation though at this point it's overkill that byobu
> was correctly purged:
> [root at mepis1 demo]# aptitude search byobu
> pi  byobu                           - a set of useful profiles and a
> profile-swi
> v   byobu-extras                    -
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Also what's the i flag doing now that byobu was purged?
>

This is #658640.

Regards