[Bug 1335006] Re: aptitude: auto-selects wrong packages

[Enrico Weigelt, metux ITS]

After some digging, I've found the packages in question in
/var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates - all with state 3.

Some some strange reason, aptitude recorded these packages there, even I never installed
them directly. Could this somehow have happened on release-upgrade ?

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Title:
  aptitude: auto-selects wrong packages

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Aptitude automatically selects recommended packages.

  Neither --without-recommends nor setting APT::Install-Recommends seem
  to have any influence.

  Reproduce:

  * kick out packages which are just recommended (using apt-get)
  * start aptitude
  * press "g"

  This behavious is observed since several releases, at least existing in several releases
  (at least in saucy and trusty).

  It renders aptitude virtually unusable in cases where you do NOT want the recommended
  packages installed automatically.

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