sometimes sets dependency packages to manual install

[Michael Vogt]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Sometimes update-manager will set packages that are really automatic installs to manual install. This happens e.g. when a new dependency gets added. Because update-manager will run synaptic in non-interactive mode the information that this dependency got auto-installed is lost. This needs to be fixed.

Check the other stuff that uses synaptic as its backend too (language-selector, gnome-app-install).

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

Note that the aptdaemon backend suffers from this problem as well due to [1] (patch).

A similar patch could be applied to InstallBackendSynaptic.py to track which packages were previously auto-installed and make sure they are marked as such afterwards. Otherwise, perhaps consider to just drop the synaptic backend and apply the python-aptdaemon fix.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/685044

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

Test case: https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+bug/1078544

[shankao (shankao)]

This problem has being fixed in the upstream bug #1078544. The fix has also being ported back to precise and quantal -proposed.

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

On 31 January 2013 12:00, shankao <email address hidden> wrote:
> This problem has being fixed in the upstream bug #1078544. The fix has
> also being ported back to precise and quantal -proposed.

That report and its fix only applies to the aptdaemon backend. The
problem is still present in the synaptic backend, which this report
specifically refers to.

 status confirmed

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

On 31 January 2013 12:00, shankao <email address hidden> wrote:
> This problem has being fixed in the upstream bug #1078544. The fix has
> also being ported back to precise and quantal -proposed.

If you are interested in closing off bugs, that other report still
requires SRU verification for precise and quantal following these
instructions <https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+bug/1078544/comments/10>.

[shankao (shankao)]

> That report and its fix only applies to the aptdaemon backend. The
>problem is still present in the synaptic backend, which this report
>specifically refers to.

Should not be the bug report changed to synaptic in that case?

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

On 31 January 2013 13:20, shankao <email address hidden> wrote:
>> That report and its fix only applies to the aptdaemon backend. The
>>problem is still present in the synaptic backend, which this report
>>specifically refers to.
>
> Should not be the bug report changed to synaptic in that case?

Synaptic already has a report filed about the limitations of the
particular interface. This report is more than that, concerning how
update-manager uses synaptic. As stated in a previous comment, it is
possible to fix this with small modifications to update-manager.