[Aptitude-devel] Bug#267162: Bug#267162: marked as done (aptitude: "not installed" not noted upon purge)

[Daniel Hartwig]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni at jidanni.org>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 03:01:49 +0800
> Subject: aptitude: "not installed" not noted upon purge

>    #  aptitude purge libgd2-xpm
>    ...
>    The following packages have been kept back:
>
> You forgot the "... is not installed" line!
>

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>

> This bug report was submitted many years ago and never handled.  This
> does not seem to happen now as described in the bug report (at least
> in my system, with pretty much the stock configuration).

In the time between the bug report and your testing, it was decided
that such output is only when --verbose is used.  The inconsistency is
still there, as confirmed by examination of the code and performing
the commands with verbose enabled.

This issue and other inconsistencies in the command line interface
will be addressed by an extensive work I have in progress to
restructure that module, using new tools exported by apt.  The
foundations of this work was in the 0.6.9 release, but that has been
reworked and will be applied once the final changes are complete.

Regards