Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi.

Apparently the following is the case (at least in aptitude, perhaps this is in 
apt as well):

When having repos for multiple suites (e.g. unstable and stable) where one is 
the
"main" suite and the is only selectively used for some packages via the 
apt_preferences
mechanism (e.g. to keep some packages at older versions or to take newer 
versions for some)
it can happen, that a package is dropped from one suite but not from the other.

E.g. in my case, I'm running at unstable, but have stable enabled for some 
packages (while
all other packages for stable have a lower prio)... in unstable, lcms1 was 
dropped, while
it continues to exist in stable.

aptitude doesn't show me that lcms1 packages are obsolete now, which of course 
also means
that I wont't get any further (security) upgrades for it in unstable and of 
course I won't
get upgrade to stable as well, since lcms1 isn't what I'm selecting via 
apt-preferences.

Since unstable is not officially security supported, I won't even get a DSA or 
something
like that, telling me that lcms1 is now longer supported.


apt/aptitude should show a package as being obsolete, in such a case.


Cheers,
Chris.

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Jun  9 2014 20:46:57
Compiler: g++ 4.8.3
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.11
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140913
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffbb167000)
        libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 
(0x00007f6d43690000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 
(0x00007f6d4345a000)
        libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 
(0x00007f6d4322f000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 
(0x00007f6d43029000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 
(0x00007f6d42d13000)
        libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 
(0x00007f6d42a4a000)
        libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007f6d42832000)
        libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f6d42421000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 
(0x00007f6d42203000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 
(0x00007f6d41ef8000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f6d41bf7000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 
(0x00007f6d419e0000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f6d41637000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f6d41434000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f6d4122f000)
        libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f6d41014000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 
(0x00007f6d40e04000)
        liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f6d40be0000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f6d409d8000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f6d407d2000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f6d44044000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.9.3
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                     2.19-12
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.1-19
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140913-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.1-19
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140913-1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.19-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.11-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1.1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.47
ii  debtags           1.12.3
ii  tasksel           3.29

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