the Debian way to sync apt-get and aptitude

From: David Kirchner (dpk_at_dpk.net)
Date: 11/10/05

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    Is there a Debian way to sync apt-get and aptitude data files? We just
    had a problem where aptitude decided to programs that were installed
    by apt-get immediately prior. This is on Sarge stable.

    Specifically, the steps to reproduce this were:

    apt-get install flac
    aptitude
      Press 'g' and you'd see 2 held back packages (cpio, libssl) and 4
    packages to be removed (flac and its dependencies).

    If you removed flac+deps with aptitude and then reinstalled them with
    apt-get, aptitude would still want to remove flac.

    This could not be reproduced on another Sarge stable server, so I
    suspect the aptitude/apt-get data files got corrupted in some way.

    Upgrading 'cpio' and 'libssl' packages took care of this particular
    problem, but that doesn't make a lot of sense, since they're not
    dependencies or conflicts to flac.

    (I have searched Google for this, but I find a lot of documentation
    for aptitude instead. I'm fine with being pointed at documentation if
    someone written about this somewhere.)

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