Your message dated Wed, 9 Sep 2015 12:58:39 +0100 with message-id <CAPQ4b8kBvMhz6KHCuU-faYeREZ0x=yy6zedgmkxjsod8oh_...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Re: Bug#514540: aptitude: Option:Aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Prompts and limits not playing nice together has caused the Debian Bug report #514540, regarding aptitude: Option:Aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Prompts and limits not playing nice together to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Severity: normal If Option:Aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Prompts is set and you use a bad limit (l) like ~Abad you get an error. If you then search again, I used, ~Atesting you get the error and results from the first search. -- 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 => (0x00007fff91bff000) libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0x00007fde896eb000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fde894a0000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fde8929b000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fde88fc8000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007fde88d4f000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007fde889e5000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fde887ce000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fde885b2000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fde882a6000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fde88023000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fde87e0c000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fde87ab9000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fde878b6000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fde876b2000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fde899ac000) Terminal: screen $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/X11/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, 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. 0.7.20.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-3 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 pn libparse-debianchange <none> (no description available) Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) pn tasksel <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Allan Wind Life Integrity, LLC http://lifeintegrity.com
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--- Begin Message ---2015-09-09 0:29 GMT+01:00 Allan Wind <[email protected]>: > Hi Manuel, > > I cannot reproduce this any more, and concur with your > conclusion to close it. OK, closing it now. > Btw, when I tried to reproduce it I added this file to > .aptitude/config (forgetting the ;): > > aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Prompts "true" > > which gave me the error: > > E: Syntax error /home/allan/.aptitude/config:6: Extra junk at end of file > E: Syntax error /home/allan/.aptitude/config:6: Extra junk at end of file > [Ok] > > The error message should probably not be duplicated. I was looking into this, but didn't find any reason in aptitude to duplicate those messages. The parsing code and the one emmitting the error is part of apt, ReadConfigFile(). > Aptitude > subsequently overwrite the configuration with what it could > parse which means I lost my configuration. The latter appears to > be Bug#472701. Ouch, yes, I am afraid that it is. Did you loose all of it, or just after the "wrong" line? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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