* apt-pkg/depcache.cc:

  - do not remove packages which the user requested for installation
    explicitly while satisfying other install requests (Closes: #598669)

3 files changed, 79 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/integration/Packages-bug-598669-install-postfix-gets-exim-heavy b/test/integration/Packages-bug-598669-install-postfix-gets-exim-heavy
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a249d6ed3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/Packages-bug-598669-install-postfix-gets-exim-heavy
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
+Priority: optional
+Section: mail
+Installed-Size: 1060
+Maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers <pkg-exim4-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Architecture: i386
+Source: exim4
+Version: 4.72-1
+Replaces:  mail-transport-agent
+Provides:  mail-transport-agent
+Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
+Filename: pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-daemon-heavy_4.72-1_i386.deb
+Size: 508988
+MD5sum: 7adf3b0ef8f134e70d19ee216e6f4452
+Description: Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended features, including exiscan-acl
+
+Package: postfix
+Priority: extra
+Section: mail
+Installed-Size: 3196
+Maintainer: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>
+Architecture: i386
+Version: 2.7.1-1
+Replaces:  mail-transport-agent
+Provides:  mail-transport-agent
+Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
+Filename: pool/main/p/postfix/postfix_2.7.1-1_i386.deb
+Size: 1325662
+MD5sum: 1ef63b6a62b4be120a9cdc312b81a698
+Description: High-performance mail transport agent
diff --git a/test/integration/status-bug-598669-install-postfix-gets-exim-heavy b/test/integration/status-bug-598669-install-postfix-gets-exim-heavy
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fcf21dc45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/status-bug-598669-install-postfix-gets-exim-heavy
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+Package: exim4-daemon-light
+Status: install ok installed
+Priority: standard
+Section: mail
+Installed-Size: 952
+Maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers <pkg-exim4-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Architecture: i386
+Source: exim4
+Version: 4.72-1
+Replaces:  mail-transport-agent
+Provides:  mail-transport-agent
+Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
+Filename: pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-daemon-light_4.72-1_i386.deb
+Size: 459500
+MD5sum: f32ccafef44bed2efcd526cd6501307d
+Description: lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
+
+Package: exim4
+Status: install ok installed
+Priority: standard
+Section: mail
+Installed-Size: 60
+Maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers <pkg-exim4-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Architecture: all
+Version: 4.72-1
+Depends: exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy
+Filename: pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.72-1_all.deb
+Size: 7738
+MD5sum: 2f473b82bbabac9718ff3e755eaf85c1
+Description: metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) installation
diff --git a/test/integration/test-bug-598669-install-postfix-gets-exim-heavy b/test/integration/test-bug-598669-install-postfix-gets-exim-heavy
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..3fee63bbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/test-bug-598669-install-postfix-gets-exim-heavy
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+local TESTDIR=$(readlink -f $(dirname $0))
+. $TESTDIR/framework
+setupenvironment
+configarchitecture "i386"
+setupaptarchive
+
+testequal "Reading package lists...
+Building dependency tree...
+The following packages will be REMOVED:
+  exim4 exim4-daemon-light
+The following NEW packages will be installed:
+  postfix
+0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
+Need to get 0 B/1326 kB of archives.
+After this operation, 2236 kB of additional disk space will be used.
+E: Trivial Only specified but this is not a trivial operation." aptget install postfix --trivial-only