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--- Begin Message ---
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1
Severity: normal
The package view (interactive usage of aptitude) is not showing the
description for some packages, e.g. asylum:
=== begin screen excerpt ===
p barrage
<none> 1.0.2-2
p bastet
<none> 0.41-6
p battleball
<none> 2.0-17
?
?
Tags: role::program, uitoolkit::sdl, use::gameplaying
?
=== end screen excerpt ===
Other packages work fine, e.g. atanks:
=== begin screen excerpt ===
p barrage
<none> 1.0.2-2
p bastet
<none> 0.41-6
p battleball
<none> 2.0-17
tank-battling game
Atomic tanks is a multi-player game in which you attempt to destroy
other tanks while trying to protect your own. You earn money for
?
destroying other tanks; with this money you can buy upgrades and better
weapons for your tank. ?
?
This game is similar Scorched Earth or the Worms series of games.
?
?
?
Tags: game::arcade, game::strategy, interface::x11, role::program,
use::gameplaying, x11::application
?
=== end screen excerpt ===
"aptitude show" works fine, OTOH:
=== begin screen excerpt ===
twin:~# aptitude show asylum
No current or candidate version found for asylum
Package: asylum
State: not installed
Version: 0.3.0-3
Priority: optional
Section: games
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
Uncompressed Size: 221k
Depends: asylum-data (= 0.3.0-3), libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libgcc1 (>=
1:4.1.1), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglu1-mesa | libglu1,
libsdl-mixer1.2
(>= 1.2.6), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1), libstdc++6 (>=
4.1.1)
Description: surreal platform shooting game
Young Sigmund has a few problems. To help him resolve his mental
instability you must enter the surreal world of his inner mind and shut
down the malfunctioning brain cells. Guide Sigmund through the Ego,
Psyche and Id zones - each one 300 times the size of the screen - to
locate the eight renegade neurons, entering them one by one to find
and trigger their self-destruct system. This is a port of Digital
Psychosis' 1994 game for the Acorn Archimedes.
Homepage: http://sdl-asylum.sourceforge.net/
Tags: role::program, uitoolkit::sdl, use::gameplaying
twin:~# === end screen excerpt ===
Unsetting language-relevant environment variables didn't change
anything.
It might correlate with APT pinning, though:
=== begin screen excerpt ===
sascha.silbe@twin:~$ apt-cache policy asylum atanks
asylum:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
0.3.0-3 0
-10 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main Packages
-10 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages
atanks:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.0-1
Version table:
3.6-1 0
-10 http://ftp.de.debian.org squeeze/main Packages
-10 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages
3.0-1 0
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny/main Packages
sascha.silbe@twin:~$ === end screen excerpt ===
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Dec 5 2008 09:06:14
Compiler: g++ 4.3.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20081213
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff23dff000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0x00007fa71b7bc000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fa71b571000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fa71b36c000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fa71b099000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007fa71ae20000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007fa71aab6000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fa71a89f000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fa71a683000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fa71a377000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fa71a0f4000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fa719edd000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa719b8a000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fa719987000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fa719783000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fa71ba7d000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal
interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for
managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for
terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework
for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++
Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library -
runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [apti 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 English manual for
aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and
output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.8.1 Enables support for package
tags
ii tasksel 2.78 Tool for selecting tasks
for insta
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
2014-01-30 16:58 GMT+00:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<[email protected]>:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> Hi,
>
> Can you please try to see if this happens in current versions of aptitude?
>
> Maybe the fact that "asylum" doesn't have any candidate (nor
> installed) version is what it's causing the problem. If you (or
> anybody) could verify whether this is an issue with the rest of
> games/packages (trying to correlate lack of description and lack of
> candidate or installed versions), it would be great.
After ~6 years of the original report, ~20 months marked as moreinfo
(long after the original submission, sadly), no seconds and having not
noticed this as a problem (not recurrent, at any rate) using aptitude
for many years, I am closing this bug report.
It might indeed have been a problem with aptitude, but also some kind
of problem with the file of descriptions/translations being corrupted,
or similar issues.
Please reopen if you still see this with recent versions of aptitude.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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