[Aptitude-devel] Bug#724034: Who is leaving configuration files on my computer?

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.2-1.2
Severity: wishlist

Who is leaving configuration files on my computer?
It happens rarely, but still happens.

So I need to do
# aptitude purge ~c
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  iproute{p}  isc-dhcp-client{p}  libaudit0{p}	wicd-cli{p}  wicd-curses{p}  wicd-daemon{p}  wicd-gtk{p}
sometimes.

I use
APT::Default-Release "experimental";//just order them in sources.list UNTRUE
APT::Cache::AllVersions false;
APT::Clean-Installed false;
APT::Get::Purge true;
APT::Install-Recommends false;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Always-Prompt true;
Aptitude::Purge-Unused true;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Why true;//511230 at bugs.debian.org
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Deps true;//587582 at bugs.debian.org
Acquire::http::No-Cache true;//564829
Acquire::PDiffs false;

I bet the problem occurs due to
dpkg: wicd-daemon: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 wicd-cli depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.2.4-4.1).
 wicd-curses depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.2.4-4.1).

Here's how they came about:

# history |grep aptitude
 1731  Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:27:57 +0800 aptitude purge wicd
 1734  Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:28:49 +0800 aptitude install ifupdown
 1736  Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:31:52 +0800 aptitude install console-setup keyboard-configuration

Start-Date: 2013-09-22	19:28:00
Purge: wicd:i386 (1.7.2.4-4.1)
End-Date: 2013-09-22  19:28:02

Start-Date: 2013-09-22	19:29:18
Install: iproute2:i386 (3.11.0-1, automatic)
Upgrade: ifupdown:i386 (0.7.43, 0.7.44)
Remove: wicd-cli:i386 (1.7.2.4-4.1), wicd-daemon:i386 (1.7.2.4-4.1), iproute:i386 (20121211-2), isc-dhcp-client:i386 (4.2.4-7), wicd-gtk:i386 (1.7.2.4-4.1), wicd-curses:i386 (1.7.2.4-4.1)
End-Date: 2013-09-22  19:29:38

----
Log started: 2013-09-22  19:29:18
(Reading database ... 146606 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ifupdown 0.7.43 (using .../ifupdown_0.7.44_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ifupdown ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
(Reading database ... 146600 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing wicd-gtk ...
dpkg: wicd-daemon: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 wicd-cli depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.2.4-4.1).
 wicd-curses depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.2.4-4.1).

Removing wicd-daemon ...
[....] Stopping Network connection manager: wicd?25l1G[32m ok 39;49m?12l?25h.
dpkg: iproute: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 isc-dhcp-client depends on iproute.

Removing iproute ...