[Bug 862776] Re: apt-get --install-suggests install is a NOOP

[TJ]

I'm experiencing this with Precise, trying to install the suggests for
the 'git' package from the stable PPA ( https://launchpad.net/~git-
core/+archive/ppa ). All the suggested packages are available for
individual installation, but using --install-suggests .... doesn't.

apt-cache show git | egrep '^(Version|Suggests)'
Version: 1:1.7.11.1-0ppa1~precise3
Suggests: gettext-base, git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit, git-doc, git-el, git-arch, git-cvs, git-svn, git-email, git-gui, gitk, gitweb

apt-get  --install-suggests install git

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Title:
  apt-get  --install-suggests install  is a NOOP

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  apt-get  --install-suggests install  is supposed to include the
  Suggested packages in the list of packages to install, but instead it
  does nothing (i.e., no error is raised regarding command line usage or
  other syntax error)

  Same behavior with --install-suggests, install-suggests=true, or -o
  'APT::Install-Suggests=true'

  $ sudo apt-get  -o 'APT::Install-Suggests=true'  install  sun-java6-bin
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    gsfonts-x11 java-common odbcinst odbcinst1debian2 sun-java6-jre tightvncserver tzdata unixodbc
  Suggested packages:
    default-jre equivs sun-java6-plugin ia32-sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho
    ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-arphic-uming tightvnc-java libmyodbc odbc-postgresql tdsodbc unixodbc-bin
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    gsfonts-x11 java-common odbcinst odbcinst1debian2 sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre tightvncserver unixodbc
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    tzdata
  1 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded.
  Need to get 36.9 MB of archives.
  After this operation, 104 MB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: apt 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep 29 15:51:35 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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