[Aptitude-devel] Bug#705612: aptitude: /var/log/aptitude does not distinguish between remove and purge

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 18:20:08 UTC 2015


Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi Axel,

2013-04-17 14:36 Axel Beckert:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.3-3.2
>Severity: minor
>
>After an "aptitude purge ~c", /var/log/aptitude looks as if those
>packages were removed (and not just their configurations purged):
>
>[...]>---snap---
>
>This is misleading: I wondered quite a while how sysklogd, syslog-ng and
>rsyslog (still installed) could be installed at the same time -- until I
>found out that those were removed a long time ago and now just their
>configurations were finally purged, too. (Hence severity minor instead
>of wishlist.)

Fix commited now, marking as +pending.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>



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