Bug: debfoster doesn't remove all packages to be 'pruned'

[Lukas Sabota]

Many times, when debfoster is asked to 'prune' a selected package, only a few of the packages that were asked to be removed are removed. Here is an example:

gedit-dev is keeping the following 31 packages installed:
  libart-2.0-dev libavahi-client-dev libavahi-common-dev libavahi-glib-dev
  libbonobo2-dev libbonoboui2-dev libdbus-1-dev libeel2-dev libgail-dev
  libgconf2-dev libgcrypt11-dev libglade2-dev libgnome-desktop-dev
  libgnome-keyring-dev libgnome-menu-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev
  libgnomeprint2.2-dev libgnomeprintui2.2-dev libgnomeui-dev libgnomevfs2-dev
  libgnutls-dev libgtksourceview-dev libidl-dev libjpeg62-dev libopencdk8-dev
  liborbit2-dev libpopt-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libtasn1-2-dev
  libxml2-dev
Keep gedit-dev? [Ynpsiuqx?], [H]elp: P
*** This command will yeild this:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gedit-dev* libbonoboui2-dev* libeel2-dev* libgnome-desktop-dev*
  libgnomeui-dev*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 3326kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

This is oviously wrong, because gedit-dev with dependency yields about 18MB.

[RJ Clay (rjclay)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[RJ Clay (rjclay)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!