On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 14:57:25 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > nandhp wrote: > > Since there's been no activity on this bug for a couple of years, I just > > wanted to mention that this happened to me a few days ago when I > > upgraded to stretch. When running aptitude after upgrading the > > distribution, obsolete/locally created packages had descriptions and > > metadata from other packages, or even none at all in some cases. > > > > However, the problem went away on its own for me too. > > Thanks for the notice. I haven't seen this issue for quite a while. > And at least the last few times I remember having noticed it, it was > either only in derivatives (Kali IIRC) or with 3rd party repositories. > > So I wonder if its related to the repository format. > > Does it happen for you with official Debian repositories or with 3rd > party repositories?
I'm not sure if this was also directed at me, but in any case, I don't think I've ever stopped experiencing this from time to time. And it's always been with packages coming from the main Debian archive. Although I do have a single personal repo with a handful of packages. Thanks, Guillem _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
