Your message dated Fri, 1 May 2015 02:53:21 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#783836: aptitude: forget-new has no effect has caused the Debian Bug report #783836, regarding aptitude: forget-new has no effect to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, aptitude seems to be unable to forget about "NEW" packages. root@localhost:/etc# aptitude search "~N" i libgnutls26 - GNU TLS library - runtime library p u-boot - A boot loader for embedded systems root@localhost:/etc# aptitude forget-new root@localhost:/etc# aptitude search "~N" i libgnutls26 - GNU TLS library - runtime library p u-boot - A boot loader for embedded systems root@localhost:/etc# i've only seen this behaviour on a single machine. all others behave as expected. however, i haven't found anything special on this machine (nothing in apt/preferences.c; apt/apt.conf.d doesn't look special either). running aptitude with a higher verbosity, doesn't reveal anything either: root@localhost:/etc# aptitude -v -v forget-new -v -v root@localhost:/etc# -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY not set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov 8 2014 13:34:39 Compiler: g++ 4.9.1 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.4.0 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 (0x00007ffd241af000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f3253efa000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f3253cc4000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f3253a99000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f3253893000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f325357d000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f32532b4000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007f325309c000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f3252c8b000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f3252a6d000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f3252762000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f3252461000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f325224a000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f3251ea1000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f3251c9e000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f3251a99000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f325187e000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f325166e000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f325144a000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f3251242000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f325103c000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f32548c7000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.11-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.9.8 ii libboost-iostreams1.55.0 1.55.0+dfsg-3 ii libc6 2.19-18 ii libcwidget3 0.5.17-2 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.4.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.7.1-1 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libxapian22 1.2.19-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.31 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, noc wrote: > aptitude seems to be unable to forget about "NEW" packages. This is a bug in apt 1.0.9.8 as currently in Jessie and Stretch. It mostly (but not only) shows up in aptitude's new packages list and automatically-installed flags. The bug is fixed with apt 1.0.9.9 in Sid and is planned to be fixed with the first Jessie release update in a few weeks. In Stretch it will be fixed in a few days. See https://bugs.debian.org/782777 and https://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt.html for details. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
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