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--- Begin Message ---Package: apt Version: 0.6.18 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I have frequently been in a situation where a program I use suddenly breaks after an apt-get upgrade, but I'm not sure why. Was it a new version of the package? Perhaps I don't recall what version I was using before the breakage, or when I might have upgraded. Was it some package that the program I'm using depends on? Maybe, but I'm not really sure of EVERYTHING the package in question (recursively) depends on or when I upgraded. So I wrote a short python script to help with this problem. The script prints out a list of the named package and all its dependencies sorted by the time they were installed on the system (as determined from /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list mtime). This gives me information to help correlate my apt-get runs with observed package breakage to try to find the culprit. For example, if aptitude stops working properly, serrano> ~/what-broke aptitude Package <libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3> has no install time info libdb1-compat Fri Aug 8 03:02:11 2003 libsigc++-1.2-5c102 Fri Aug 8 05:15:58 2003 aptitude Sun Jan 11 17:38:06 2004 libncurses5 Sun Jan 18 08:11:05 2004 libc6 Thu Jan 22 07:55:10 2004 libgcc1 Tue Jan 27 07:37:22 2004 gcc-3.3-base Tue Jan 27 07:37:31 2004 libstdc++5 Tue Jan 27 07:37:32 2004 So depending on exactly when I started seeing the misbehavior, there may be a reason to point the finger at a more-recently updated library like libstdc++ or libncurses, which are more-recently installed than aptitude itself. I have put this script in the public domain and I am including it with this bug report in case it might by useful in a future version of apt. I guess it would have to be recoded in C/C++ to be part of apt so I don't expect that it will be used as-is, but I thought it might be nice as a concrete example of what I'm talking about. Script pasted below. Enjoy! #! /usr/bin/python # what-broke: help find offending packages when something breaks # Placed in the public domain by Bill Gribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> import sys import os import popen2 import time from string import * from stat import * def pkgdeps(pkg): outstr, instr = popen2.popen4("apt-cache depends %s" % pkg) deps = [] myline = outstr.readline() while(myline != ''): elts = map(strip, myline.split(':')) if len(elts) == 2: how, pkg = elts if how == 'Depends': deps.append(pkg) myline = outstr.readline() return deps def alldeps(pkg, ignore): deps = {} imm_deps = pkgdeps(pkg) for i in imm_deps: if ignore.get(i) is None: deps[i] = 1 ignore[i] = 1 childeps = alldeps(i, ignore) for c in childeps: deps[c] = 1 ignore[i] = 1 dlist = deps.keys() return dlist def pkginstalltime(pkg): listfile = '/var/lib/dpkg/info/' + pkg + '.list' try: return os.stat(listfile)[ST_MTIME] except: print "Package", pkg, "has no install time info" return None def what_broke(pname): def sortfun(a, b): return cmp(a[1], b[1]) pkgs = [ pname ] pkgs.extend(alldeps(sys.argv[1], {})) itimes = [] for p in pkgs: itimes.append([p, pkginstalltime(p)]) itimes.sort(sortfun) for i in itimes: p, t = i if t is not None: print ljust(p, 54), time.asctime(time.localtime(float(t))) if (len(sys.argv) != 2 or sys.argv[1][0] == '-'): print "Usage: what-broke <pkg-name>" sys.exit(-1) else: what_broke(sys.argv[1]) sys.exit(0) -- Package-specific info: -- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers experimental APT policy: (900, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.1 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-0pre3 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-0pre3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Source: debian-goodies Source-Version: 0.24 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of debian-goodies, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: debian-goodies_0.24.dsc to pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.24.dsc debian-goodies_0.24.tar.gz to pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.24.tar.gz debian-goodies_0.24_all.deb to pool/main/d/debian-goodies/debian-goodies_0.24_all.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated debian-goodies package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:42:54 +0200 Source: debian-goodies Binary: debian-goodies Architecture: source all Version: 0.24 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: debian-goodies - Small toolbox-style utilities for Debian systems Closes: 224857 231470 249818 251353 263471 283401 292585 307694 329723 368227 369494 369762 Changes: debian-goodies (0.24) unstable; urgency=low . * Taking up this package as new maintainer, after talking with Matt on private mail. * Fix Frank Lichtenheld's mail in all manpages (Closes: #249818) * Changes to debget: - debget --help (or -h) now works as expected. Introduce usage in the tool to warn on errors when calling it (Closes: #251353) - Any other options are rejected (as they would be passed on to apt) - Additional error checking in debget to prevent it from going ahead when something goes wrong, this includes checking first if the apt-get dependencies are right and that the package the user asked us to retrieve exists (Closes: #283401) - Use apt-cache instead of apt-get to get the version as 'apt-get -q2 -s --reinstall install' requires, for some reason, super cower powers. This makes it possible to download packages without satisfying dependencies (Closes: #369494) - Document the fact that downloading packages from the package cache is not supported both in the manpage and in the program's output (Closes: #224857) * Fix manpage dglob typos as well as the header of the documentation generated by pod2man (Closes #228302, #305802) * Have debman use bash as a shell (Closes: #369762) * Set LC_NUMERIC to 'C' in dpigs as suggested by Bill Allombert (Closes: #368227) * Move checkrestart to /usr/sbin (Closes: #329723) * Have dglob exit with a '1' exit status if no packages match the globbing pattern (Closes: #292585) * Make popbugs properly extract the file provided by the user instead of /var/log/popularity-contest, if requested to (Closes: #263471) * Fix typo in popbugs.1 manpage (AUTOR -> AUTHOR) * Include which-pkg-broke Python script contributed by Bill Gribble and wrote its associated manpage (Closes: #231470) * Include network-test shell script contributed by myself and wrote its associated manpage (Closes: #307694) * Use debhelper compatibility version 4 Files: 31a5dbae1f0210ed4dfc3abc1f1a8fe7 650 utils optional debian-goodies_0.24.dsc a1446610e694653c43be714591ae7fdf 23447 utils optional debian-goodies_0.24.tar.gz 6bdf1d7a421505c434458a11cc226325 30696 utils optional debian-goodies_0.24_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRMVIIvtEPvakNq0lAQJtBgP9GntORq/cJklOP5GnXnyhAVQsBeMxykCG 6aiGIAnHDrIByVHG48OqltL207bwM+o40Ndll9tmlVL875kKiJdqIAbgplo8WzUE BG+TVafWj1d2JR9+/YjBwMgF2zJJ6AdbbPP71IUnmrcP0AmCamKMQjdpQ2cbiDZf tuIJljN8t8E= =xZ0T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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