Package: apticron
Version: 1.1.55
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

I have two packages on hold (with aptitude) and apticron keeps notifying me
about them even with NOTIFY_HOLDS="0"

I guess this is because now /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates now has a new line
for “Architecture:”.

The following patch fixes this for me:

---8<---
--- /usr/sbin/apticron~ 2012-05-23 03:21:09.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/sbin/apticron  2013-05-08 13:03:09.241452805 +0200
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ for p in $PKGNAMES; do
 done
 
 # workaround to handle apt-get installing packages hold by aptitude. See 
#137771.
-APTITUDE_HOLDS=`grep "^State: 2" -B 2 /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates 2>/dev/null 
|grep "^Package: .*$" |cut -d" " -f 2`
+APTITUDE_HOLDS=`grep "^State: 2" -B 3 /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates 2>/dev/null 
|grep "^Package: .*$" |cut -d" " -f 2`
 DSELECT_HOLDS=`dpkg --get-selections |grep "hold$" |cut -f1`
 
 if [ "$NOTIFY_HOLDS" = "0" ]; then
--->8---

Thank you.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 
'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apticron depends on:
ii  apt                    0.9.7.8
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]      8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1
ii  bzip2                  1.0.6-4
ii  cron                   3.0pl1-124
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.49
ii  dpkg                   1.16.10
ii  ucf                    3.0025+nmu3

Versions of packages apticron recommends:
ii  apt-listchanges  2.85.11
ii  iproute          20120521-3+b3

apticron suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* apticron/notification: fpi...@portsdebalears.com


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