[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841347: Bug#841347: packages are not marked as auto "i A" in aptitude

[Michael Biebl]

Am 20.10.2016 um 01:03 schrieb Axel Beckert:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 20.10.2016 um 00:44 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>>> So, the complete steps to reproduce the issue:
>>> - create a fresh chroot via debootstrap
>>> - start aptitude in interactive mode, select a random, non-related
>>> package, say netbase, mark it as auto-installed via "M"

fwiw, this step can be replaced by
$ aptitude markauto netbase
or actually any other aptitude action which creates
/var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates, like installing a package via aptitude.

>> At this point, you should have /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates
>>
>>> - exit aptitude and install the example deb via apt install ./...
>>> - then check the auto state of gobject-introspection. It will now differ
>>> between aptitude and apt.
>>>
>>> The key here is, that you need to have a /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates
>>
>> Removing that file again:
>>
>> $ aptitude show gobject-introspection | grep Auto
>> Automatically installed: yes
>>
>> Once the pkgstates file exists, aptitude seems to no longer read the
>> autobit state from apt.
> 
> Thanks for all these details! Seems as if there are still some corner
> cases where aptitude doesn't sync the autoinstalled bit properly --
> changing an autoinstalled bit manually without any install/remove
> action seems to such a case according to your description.

Afaics, once /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates exists, which it will after any
non-trivial use of aptitude, the sync between apt and aptitude is
completely broken. So I suspect basically everyone will be affected by
this, who uses both apt and aptitude. I wouldn't call that a corner
case. But maybe I'm just a bit weird that I use both apt and aptitude at
the same time :-)

Regards,
Michael
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