Comment 11 for bug 503765

On 4 September 2012 17:41, Sergio Callegari <email address hidden> wrote:
> If I clean up the scheduled changes in aptitude, then I work for some
> time (say 1 month) without using aptitude, but just apt-get, synaptic,
> or apper and after 1 month I go back to saying 'sudo aptitude install',
> then aptitude shows that mess, probably due to the fact that it is being
> confused by something that happened behind it shoulders.

Curious. I have absolutely never experienced that although I do
intermix use of apt-get with aptitude. There are reports of small
scale problems like this, but they only ever have mentioned one or two
packages which were previously installed/removed by aptitude. I will
attempt to recreate this and look in to it.

Do you have something like apticron or cron-apt installed which may be
scheduling updates with aptitude?

Please attach also the output from:

$ sudo apt-config dump -c /root/.aptitude/config -c ~/.aptitude/config